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(main): Increase lock timeout to five minutes.

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Richard M. Stallman 1995-05-07 22:36:27 +00:00
parent 238959e902
commit 66a8ad0fd4
1 changed files with 5 additions and 2 deletions
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lib-src/movemail.c
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@ -251,11 +251,14 @@ main (argc, argv)
break;
sleep (1);
/* If lock file is a minute old, unlock it. */
/* If lock file is five minutes old, unlock it.
Five minutes should be good enough to cope with crashes
and wedgitude, and long enough to avoid being fooled
by time differences between machines. */
if (stat (lockname, &st) >= 0)
{
now = time (0);
if (st.st_ctime < now - 60)
if (st.st_ctime < now - 300)
unlink (lockname);
}
}