Bug#960358: exim4-base: spec.txt, NFS and file locking

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2020-05-12 Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net> wrote:
> Package: exim4-base
> Version: 4.93-15
> Severity: normal

> In /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/spec.txt.gz :

> --------
> In order to append to an NFS file safely from more than one host, it is
> necessary to take out a lock before opening the file, and the lock file
> achieves this. Otherwise, even with fcntl() locking, there is a risk of file
> corruption.
> --------

> I don't see why.
[...]

Hello Vincent,

Would you mind taking question upstream (exim-users mailing list)?

This does not seem to be a bug report but question that would best be
discussed directly.

cu Andreas