Bug 3459 - add support for network lock manager
Summary: add support for network lock manager
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Spamassassin
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Libraries (show other bugs)
Version: SVN Trunk (Latest Devel Version)
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Undefined
Assignee: SpamAssassin Developer Mailing List
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Reported: 2004-06-02 11:04 UTC by Daniel Quinlan
Modified: 2005-01-13 08:57 UTC (History)
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Description Daniel Quinlan 2004-06-02 11:04:15 UTC 
We should seriously look at adding a network lock manager to SpamAssassin or
spamd.  This would require some form of IPC, but I think it would be more
reliable than NFS-safe locking, we could avoid polling entirely, and it might
even be more reliable than flock().

Perhaps we could have support for some third-party external lock manager.

I'll look around and see what might be available on Linux distributions
circa 2004.
Comment 1 Malte S. Stretz 2004-06-03 14:55:57 UTC 
I had a quick look around and couldn't find anything. Except NFS' very own 
implementation rpc.lockd which seems to be supported by File::NFSLock on CPAN.
Comment 2 Daniel Quinlan 2005-01-13 17:57:14 UTC 
flock seems to work better, closing as WONTFIX