At 09:15 -0400 12 Apr 2001, Charlie Summers charlie@lofcom.com wrote:
For the short time this ball is going to be in play, I don't see a major problem using touch over lockfile (indeed, for this, no lock file is really
It doesn't take long for a race condition to cause problems. And since it's "lockfile" is only three characters longer than "touch" I don't see any advantage to using touch. Best to get in that habit anyway.
required, since AFAIK nothing in SmartList works directly with accept anyway).
Well, nothing modifies it. But It not being there could cause a message to be incorrectly rejected.