comparison src/s/gnu-linux.h @ 51109:cf8a7f2ef2c3

(MAIL_USE_FLOCK): Make it conditional.

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   /usr/spool/mail/$USER.lock.  */

/* On GNU/Linux systems, both methods are used by various mail
   programs.  I assume that most people are using newer mailers that
   have heard of flock.  Change this if you need to. */

#define MAIL_USE_FLOCK

/* Define CLASH_DETECTION if you want lock files to be written
   so that Emacs can tell instantly when you try to modify
   a file that someone else has modified in his Emacs.  */

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   /usr/spool/mail/$USER.lock.  */

/* On GNU/Linux systems, both methods are used by various mail
   programs.  I assume that most people are using newer mailers that
   have heard of flock.  Change this if you need to. */
/* Debian contains a patch which says: ``On Debian/GNU/Linux systems,
   configure gets the right answers, and that means *NOT* using flock.
   Using flock is guaranteed to be the wrong thing. See Debian Policy
   for details.'' and then uses `#ifdef DEBIAN'.  Unfortunately the
   Debian maintainer hasn't provided a clean fix for Emacs.
   movemail.c will use `maillock' when MAILDIR, HAVE_LIBMAIL and
   HAVE_MAILLOCK_H are defined, so the following appears to be the
   correct logic.  -- fx */

#if !(defined (HAVE_LIBMAIL) && defined (HAVE_MAILLOCK_H))
#define MAIL_USE_FLOCK
#endif

/* Define CLASH_DETECTION if you want lock files to be written
   so that Emacs can tell instantly when you try to modify
   a file that someone else has modified in his Emacs.  */