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


This one time, at band camp, 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*

I haven't found it to be a significant problem.  Now get your head out of
your 4th point of contact.

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:0:
* ? (formail -x From: -x Sender: -x Reply-To: -x Received: | grep -iqf ~/.kf)
/dev/null