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On Friday, Oct 11, 2002, at 13:24 Europe/London, Simon Wistow wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 05:45:08PM +0100, Nicholas Clark said: >> However, is there any sort of sanity locking - presumably a race >> condition >> can exist where (say) two e-mails both requesting configuration >> changes >> can arrive, execute simultaneously: Last change wins. I think most of the by email changes be gated by ack messages anyhow, so that I can't surreptitiously upset you by spoofing an envelope and asking for extra header munging. > In general, plugins (and hence stuff configured by email) don't update > preferences (the fact that the Submit one does it is actually a bit of > a > hack) In general this is because there's a lot of code that just doesn't exist yet. Also I've not yet put any code in the Request plugin (the semi-clever thing that handles foo-request@ emails), which will be doing a lot of this stuff. > - this will be done by the web interface or nacho so if people are > stupid enough to be messing round with the two interfaces at the same > time then, well, they get what they deserve. You're forgetting per-user configuration[0], who if aren't using web sure as hell won't be using nacho. [0] or maybe you're just blocking it from your mind to avoid the pain. -- Richard Clamp <richardc@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>There's stuff above here
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