From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Love Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TODO additions Date: 15 Dec 2002 17:23:12 +0000 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200210291902.g9TJ2AY18220@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039973028 30393 80.91.224.249 (15 Dec 2002 17:23:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 17:23:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18NcUU-0007tw-00 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 18:23:46 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18NchZ-0000A2-00 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 18:37:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18NcUN-0001nd-03 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 12:23:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18NcU1-0001mp-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 12:23:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18NcTz-0001lu-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 12:23:16 -0500 Original-Received: from albion.dl.ac.uk ([148.79.80.39]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18NcTx-0001gt-00; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 12:23:13 -0500 Original-Received: from fx by albion.dl.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18NcTw-0003NJ-00; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 17:23:12 +0000 Original-To: rms@gnu.org Original-Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10146 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10146 Richard Stallman writes: > > I will ask rlb if he can recommend changes to make movemail do the > > right kind of mail locking on Debian GNU/Linux. > > As I tried to explain, that is a necessary change to the current build > if mail is delivered by a Debian system, but not a sufficient change > to movemail if mail is delivered to the spool by a non-Debian system. > > I can see too many possible meanings for this. > > Have you looked at rlb's code? I've only seen the changes in the latest diffs for the Debian package, not what you said is supposed to do the same thing as sperber's version. > Are you saying it DOES have a > shortcoming compared with the XEmacs code? The version in the latest debian package has such a shortcoming. > Or are you speculating about it based on my description? (My > description is NOT accurate enough to be useful for that.) I was only commenting on what you wrote above. Mail isn't always delivered by the same sort of system on which you read it. That's especially so with a site-wide spool. It looks as though the mechanism in Debian has even been changing, so an older system doing the delivery may not be consistent with a new client.