race condition in tool mode when "Done"

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From: Don Lewis
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1989 08:25

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I just ran into some sort of race condition between when I hit the
"Done" button in tool mode and when a piece of mail was delivered to me.
Mush didn't notice this piece of mail until the next piece was delivered
to me a several minutes later.  I did a trace on it and it was periodically
stat()'ing /var/spool/mail/del.  Unfortunately I don't recall if my mail
spool file needed to be updated or not when I hit "Done".  I can't seem
to reproduce it now though and I don't see anything obviously wrong.

Darn.  It looks like I may have gone and broken something.
--
Don "Truck" Lewis                                     Harris Semiconductor
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From: del@thrush.semi.harris-atd.com (Don Lewis)
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Subject: race condition in tool mode when "Done"
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Date: 22 Nov 89 08:25:12 GMT
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