NAME

Mail::Box::Locker::Multi - lock a folder in all ways which work

CLASS HIERARCHY

 Mail::Box::Locker::Multi
 is a Mail::Box::Locker
 is a Mail::Reporter

SYNOPSIS

 See Mail::Box::Locker

DESCRIPTION

The ::Multi locker locks a folder in each way it can. This way, the chance is highest that any other program will leave the folder alone during our access to it.

NFS-lock and Flock are tried. More may be added when the ways to lock are extended. DotLock overlaps with NFS-lock, but NFS-lock is safer, so that version is prefered.

METHOD INDEX

Methods prefixed with an abbreviation are described in Mail::Reporter (MR), Mail::Box::Locker (MBL).

The general methods for Mail::Box::Locker::Multi objects:

  MBL DESTROY                          MBL name
   MR errors                               new OPTIONS
  MBL filename                          MR report [LEVEL]
  MBL hasLock                           MR reportAll [LEVEL]
  MBL isLocked                          MR trace [LEVEL]
  MBL lock FOLDER                      MBL unlock
   MR log [LEVEL [,STRINGS]]            MR warnings

The extra methods for extension writers:

   MR AUTOLOAD                          MR logPriority LEVEL
   MR DESTROY                           MR logSettings
   MR inGlobalDestruction               MR notImplemented

METHODS

new OPTIONS

 OPTIONS        DESCRIBED IN               DEFAULT
 file           Mail::Box::Locker          undef
 folder         Mail::Box::Locker          <obligatory>
 log            Mail::Reporter             'WARNINGS'
 method         Mail::Box::Locker          <not used>
 expires        Mail::Box::Locker          1 hour
 trace          Mail::Reporter             'WARNINGS'
 timeout        Mail::Box::Locker          10 seconds
 use            Mail::Box::Locker::Multi   <all possible>

• use => ARRAY

  Array of locker types and locker objects to be used to lock one folder. The type names are converted into objects.

  Some locking types are not available on some platforms, so they will not be excluded from the default list (NFS POSIX Flock).

  lockers

  Returns a list with all locker objects used by this object.

SEE ALSO

Mail::Box-Overview

For support and additional documentation, see http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/

AUTHOR

Mark Overmeer (mailbox@overmeer.net). All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

VERSION

This code is beta, version 2.018.

Copyright (c) 2001-2002 Mark Overmeer. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.