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: movemail re-write [was Re: TODO additions] Date: 10 Dec 2002 23:42:52 +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 1039564155 30174 80.91.224.249 (10 Dec 2002 23:49:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 23:49:15 +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 18Lu7l-0007qP-00 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 00:49:13 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18LuIY-0005wu-00 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 01:00:22 +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 18Lu21-0001qC-02 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:43:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Lu1j-0001pn-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:42:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Lu1h-0001oZ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:42:58 -0500 Original-Received: from albion.dl.ac.uk ([148.79.80.39]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Lu1f-0001la-00; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:42:55 -0500 Original-Received: from fx by albion.dl.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Lu1d-0005WN-00; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 23:42:53 +0000 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 29 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:10052 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10052 Richard Stallman writes: > I can supply someone willing to do the work with a diff that's all > Sperber's work, and thus assigned. It's between _old versions_ of the > _XEmacs_ source, though. > > I guess that would do for a start. However, Rob Browning > says he has code that he himself wrote > to do the job. Starting with that should be easier. I hope so, if someone can get hold of it and check that it does the same things as Sperber's (with the same interface). It's a pity stuff like this from Debian doesn't actually get contributed; one has to go looking. > The idea is to specify a lock method > that the system can support via environment variable EMACSLOCKMETHOD > or a flag. E.g. on Debian with the binary from the XEmacs package: > > That seems ok. It doesn't by itself solve the problem of how to > make the right thing happen on Debian, though. Does Debian define > this variable by default? No. The default is (I assume) correct on Debian, as chosen by configure. I thought I showed the help from movemail initially: Usage: movemail [-rvxkh] [-l lines ] [-m method ] [-i] inbox [-o] destfile [[-p] POP-password] where method is one of: dot, lockf, flock Default is: flock