Re: 2.1.46 weird creat problem

Steve Kump (skump@inch.com)
Thu, 24 Jul 1997 16:02:57 -0400

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> When I went from 2.1.42 to 2.1.46, MH (the one true mail system) stopped
> working for me. It seems that I am no longer able to "inc" my mail out of
> the mail spool, which is a (NFS-mounted) Solaris-served, t-bit mail
> directory. Strace shows the following happening:
>
> [...]
> stat("/var/spool/mail/,LCK.a01595", 0xbfffdea8) =
> -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> unlink("/var/spool/mail/,LCK.a01595") =
> -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> creat("/var/spool/mail/,LCK.a01595", 0400) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
> [...]

I saw that exact problem in 2.1.44 or one of the pre-releases, I think
it was related to the new inode stuff, but it went away in 2.1.45 and
I'm using exmh with MH just fine now in 2.1.46.

Only thing I can suggest is to be sure you did a make clean after
patching to 2.1.46.

--
Steve Kump <skump@inch.com>

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