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1 total messages Started by Kurt Hirchert Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:28
"save" overwriting rather than appending
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Author: Kurt Hirchert
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:28
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Using version 7.2.1, I replied to a message and then tried to save
that message to the same file as is specified as my outlog.  (This
was in an account used for technical support and file is intended
to be a log of the interactions with our users, so this is a common
operation.)  First, mush put up a message about waiting to lock file
and then it put out the normal message about appending to the file.
However, the original message ended up in the middle of the outgoing
message (just after the headers, overwriting the first part of the
body of the outgoing message).  Looking back at old logs, I realize
that this has occurred before with a frequency somewhere between
1 in 100 and 1 in 1000.

Can anyone explain why this is happening?  Is there a fix to keep
it from happening again in the future?  Is there a workaround that
will significantly reduce the likelihood of its happening?

[If possible, please respond by e-mail and I will post a summary
of responses received.]
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Kurt W. Hirchert     hirchert@ncsa.uiuc.edu
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
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