[Mailman3-dev] Re: [RETRANSMIT] Re:
[Mailman-Developers] Debate about Mailman on BytesForAll
Brad Knowles
brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Fri Aug 27 00:12:38 CEST 2004
At 5:16 PM -0400 2004-08-26, J C Lawrence wrote:
> I've spent some time mucking about in this area and it is a minefield.
> Very simply, throwing out all of the messy details, there is only one
> operation which is atomic under the network filesystems: creat (2).
Which is why Nick Christensen built the Earthlink mail system
around this feature. See
<http://www.jetcafe.org/~npc/doc/mail_arch.html>.
But I don't see how we can build all of Mailman around the same feature.
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