[maildropl] Re: [courier-users] Re: OpenBSD 3.2 breaks Courier, Qmail.

[Johan L. <jo...@li...>]

>I actually had another brainstorm today.  Add the file's inode, when
>moving the message from tmp to new:
>
>tmp/timestamp.unique_pid.hostname ->
>new/timestamp.inode.unique_pid.hostname

Well, if the goal is to eliminate race conditions, this still won't do the=
 trick.
Remember one of my early mails about this, Sam? Before we took it to the
list.

I suggested making one of the always-present daemons a central point
of message names.

Have courierd (for example) simply hand out unique file names on a TCP
port. Simple to do, and completely, absolutely, eliminates all race=
 conditions
and conflicts. You no longer need PID's, inodes or whatever.

Just a counter.

/J