Re: [chat] Lock my arse [Was: the 59 deceits of michael moore.]

[James Gregory <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 14:55 +1000, invisible ink wrote:
> Jamie Wilkinson:
> 
> > :0:
> > * ? (formail -x From: -x Sender: -x Reply-To: -x Received: | grep -iqf ~/.kf)
> > /dev/null	
> 
> ^ given that you're delivering to /dev/null, you don't have to worry about
> locking. So the first like could very well just be ":0". Of course, if you
> suspect that /dev/null can't process your entropy in a multithreaded or
> asynchronous fashion, you should definitely lock... *cough*

It's like token ring, dude. You get the best throughput by ensuring that
only one process is writing to /dev/null at a time. Trust me, Jamie's
Fluhshstone rating is *very* impressive.

j.

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