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(MAIL_USE_FLOCK): Make it conditional.

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Dave Love 2003-05-20 16:27:57 +00:00
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@ -130,8 +130,18 @@ Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
/* On GNU/Linux systems, both methods are used by various mail
programs. I assume that most people are using newer mailers that
have heard of flock. Change this if you need to. */
/* Debian contains a patch which says: ``On Debian/GNU/Linux systems,
configure gets the right answers, and that means *NOT* using flock.
Using flock is guaranteed to be the wrong thing. See Debian Policy
for details.'' and then uses `#ifdef DEBIAN'. Unfortunately the
Debian maintainer hasn't provided a clean fix for Emacs.
movemail.c will use `maillock' when MAILDIR, HAVE_LIBMAIL and
HAVE_MAILLOCK_H are defined, so the following appears to be the
correct logic. -- fx */
#if !(defined (HAVE_LIBMAIL) && defined (HAVE_MAILLOCK_H))
#define MAIL_USE_FLOCK
#endif
/* Define CLASH_DETECTION if you want lock files to be written
so that Emacs can tell instantly when you try to modify