[Dovecot] 1.0.rc22 released

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Feb 6 21:39:13 UTC 2007


On 6.2.2007, at 23.35, Troy Engel wrote:

> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> I'm mostly thinking that if the data isn't written to disk before  
>> it's updated again, there's no need to write it twice then.
>
> Would this create a race condition (sic) if the same IMAP mailbox  
> were logged into from two different locations? (i.e. Thunderbird  
> and SquirrelMail)

No, kernel handles all of this correctly internally. File locking is  
what prevents the files from being corrupted, and Dovecot does that.
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