[Mailman-Developers] race condition in locking ?

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "HM" == Harald Meland <Harald.Meland@usit.uio.no> writes:

    >> Ah, well, I couldn't find any parts of Mailman in the CVS tree
    >> that acually _called_ steal, so I couldn't figure out what it
    >> should do in borderline cases.

    HM> The only place I know of is cron/gate_news.

And even that no longer does (see my previous long post).  I'm still
not comfortable with radical changes to LockFile.py at this late stage
of the game, but will re-examine this whole thread after 2.0 final.

-Barry