D10505: mail: add a TODO about proper mbox locking

mharbison72 (Matt Harbison) phabricator at mercurial-scm.org
Wed Apr 21 03:31:58 UTC 2021


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REVISION SUMMARY
  Per @nbjoerg in IRC, the mbox isn't locked correctly.

REPOSITORY
  rHG Mercurial

BRANCH
  stable

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10505

AFFECTED FILES
  mercurial/mail.py

CHANGE DETAILS

diff --git a/mercurial/mail.py b/mercurial/mail.py
--- a/mercurial/mail.py
+++ b/mercurial/mail.py
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@
 
 def _mbox(mbox, sender, recipients, msg):
     '''write mails to mbox'''
+    # TODO: use python mbox library for proper locking
     with open(mbox, b'ab+') as fp:
         # Should be time.asctime(), but Windows prints 2-characters day
         # of month instead of one. Make them print the same thing.



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