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: 09 Dec 2002 19:03:38 +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 1039461015 10244 80.91.224.249 (9 Dec 2002 19:10:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 19:10:15 +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 18LTIA-0002es-00 for ; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 20:10:10 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18LTSN-0007RC-00 for ; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 20:20:43 +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 18LTCV-0003M1-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:04:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18LTBz-0003Jx-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:03:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18LTBw-0003JY-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:03:46 -0500 Original-Received: from albion.dl.ac.uk ([148.79.80.39]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18LTBs-0003JE-00; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:03:40 -0500 Original-Received: from fx by albion.dl.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18LTBr-0002ME-00; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 19:03:39 +0000 Original-To: rms@gnu.org Original-Lines: 27 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:10007 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10007 Richard Stallman writes: > > I am completely confused now. Are you talking about Emacs changes > > made by Debian, or something else? > > I'm talking about the version of movemail from XEmacs. I just happen > to be using the Debian-distributed binary. I don't know if Debian > made any changes to the XEmacs version like to the Emacs one. > > I am not sure how movemail from XEmacs relates to the issue > of mail locking in Debian. What is its relevance? It can DTRT both for mail delivered by Debian and by other systems (Irix in my case). > 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. It's not clear to me whether a non-Debian client can actually lock the spool properly when Debian is doing the delivery, since it system seems to depend on a Debian-specific library. (This exchange seems to be going round in circles.)