Re: [trustees] Trustess breaks postfix maildir delivery

[Rob S. <ro...@rs...>]

Andy,

	I've got quite a few Dual Xeon 2.4s with Hyperthreading so let me know 
what you need.

Thanks,
-Rob

Andrew Ruder wrote:
> Rob See wrote:
> 
>>     I believe they are near each other in the tree. A maildir mailbox 
>> is set up with a parent directory, and then three subdirs: curr, new, 
>> and temp. I believe what happens is that the message gets put in temp, 
>> linked to new, and unlinked from temp . There was some discussion on 
>> the postfix list about using rename instead of link to deal with 
>> non-inode based file systems, but I haven't been able to find any 
>> patches implementing it. Having to do a separate acl for each postfix 
>> maildir on your system could get ugly really quickly. Is there an easy 
>> way to check if two dirs have the same trustees acls and then if they 
>> are, allow the link ?
> 
> 
> Not right now, but I've been attempting to implement this for a long 
> time; however, I've had problems coming up with a data structure that 
> would allow easily determining if two directories are setup with the 
> same acls; however, as I see this is now affecting the use of trustees, 
> I will attempt to look at this more tonight.  Unfortunately, I do not 
> have access to my SMP testing machine this summer (I'm on internship in 
> a different state, so I might need some of you with beefier machines to 
> be the "testers" for synchronization issues [ although I usually don't 
> have as many problems with this when I'm writing my own code as opposed 
> to simply modifying someone elses] ).
> 
> I will try to get -something- in that works and then perhaps work on the 
>  associated speed issues later.
> 
> - Andy