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From: schaefer@cse.ogi.edu (Barton E. Schaefer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: race condition in tool mode when "Done"
Message-ID: <5832@ogccse.ogc.edu>
Date: 25 Nov 89 21:18:37 GMT
References: <1989Nov22.082512.17046@semi.harris-atd.com>
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Reply-To: schaefer@ogccse.UUCP (Barton E. Schaefer)
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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This reply address failed after 3 days of "hostname lookup failure":
    To: del@thrush.semi.harris-atd.com
so I'm posting this.  Not an Official Patch; applies to 7.0.0.0 alpha
version of mush only.

In article <1989Nov22.082512.17046@semi.harris-atd.com> del writes:
} 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.

You're using 7.0.0.0, correct?  There is a bug in check_new_mail().  I'm
not sure whether this solves the problem you had or not.

signals.c.0	Mon Aug 28 10:18:08 1989
--- signals.c	Mon Sep 18 14:11:01 1989
***************
*** 229,236 ****
  	    (void) emptyfile(&tmpf, tempfile);
  	current_msg = msg_cnt = 0;
      }
      if (last_spool_size != spool_size) {
- 	(void) load_folder(mailfile, 1, NULL);
  	if (update_size)
  	    last_spool_size = spool_size;
  	if (msg_cnt < last_msg_cnt)
--- 229,236 ----
  	    (void) emptyfile(&tmpf, tempfile);
  	current_msg = msg_cnt = 0;
      }
+     (void) load_folder(mailfile, 1, NULL);
      if (last_spool_size != spool_size) {
  	if (update_size)
  	    last_spool_size = spool_size;
  	if (msg_cnt < last_msg_cnt)