NAME

Mail::Box::Locker::NFS - lock a folder with a seperate file, NFS-safe

CLASS HIERARCHY

 Mail::Box::Locker::NFS
 is a Mail::Box::Locker
 is a Mail::Reporter

SYNOPSIS

 See Mail::Box::Locker

DESCRIPTION

Like the ::DotLock locker, but then in an NFS-safe fashion. Over NFS, the creation of a file is not atomic. The ::DotLock locker depends on an atomic open() hence in not usable. The ::NFS locker is more complicated (so slower), but will work for NFS -and for local disks too.

METHOD INDEX

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

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

  MBL DESTROY                          MBL name
   MR errors                           MBL 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

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.