Re: modifying movemail

[Florian von Savigny <florian265@uboot.com>]

Pascal Bourguignon <spam@thalassa.informatimago.com> writes:

> My script won't work 100% of the time.  It may work correctly 80% or
> never or anything betweek 0% and 100%.

I'll give it a try, hoping it works with my (simple)
setup. Regrettably, the news server seems to have discarded the
beginnings of this thread, and I have failed to save away your
script. Trying to re-write it from memory, I arrived at:

#!/bin/sh

echo $$ > "$1".lock

while [ -ne `cat "$1".lock` $$ ]
  do
  while [ -x "$1".lock ]
    do
    sleep 5
    done
  done

mv "$1" "$2"
rm "$1".lock


Was that correct? I am not sure, because that way I don't see how the
condition in the first "while" should ever become false (perhaps when
the echo in the first line fails?).



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