Re: Mail::Box::Mbox does not respect lock?

Raul Dias <[email protected]> Wed, 01 Jun 2005 19:07:29 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.mail-box
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Answering my own question.... :)

Yes it does.

Just have to make sure that lock_timout (Mail::Box) or expires
(Mail::Box::locker::DotFile) has appropriated value (default to 1h).


Raul Dias

On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 14:53 -0300, Raul Dias wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have a script doing slow mbox work on a directory with some MBoxes.
> I have another script doing cleanup stuff in parallel.
> 
> Both are using Mail::Box.
> 
> Mail::Box creates the lock file "<mbox_name>.lock" as expected.
> 
> However when opening the same mbox with the another script it does not
> respect the lock file and open the mailbox anyways.
> 
> Is this the expected behaviour? is this a bug? or just a
> misconfiguration in my script?
> 
> 
> Raul Dias
>