Subject: Slow Local Folder Access and Locking

From: Dan Hatton <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 14:31:22 +0000 (GMT)

Hi.  Please can anyone help me out with the following problem: access to
my local Pine folders, especially write access such as saving messages and
writing fccs, is often very, very slow, with Linux Pine 4.21?  This
appears to be partly (maybe wholly) caused by Pine believing that the
folders are locked; about halfway through the delay, it starts counting
down from 285 seconds until it overrides the lock.  There is no obvious
reason for the folders to be locked, i.e. no other copy of Pine is running
and no other process is accessing them.

Some possible leads:

The folders were created with PC-Pine 4.21.

The mail folder files are on a vfat filesystem, with consequences:

	I do not own the files; they are owned by root, and I get at them
	by being in a group with read, write, and execute permissions on
	them.

	The filesystem does not support symbolic links.

When suggesting solutions, please bear in mind that I am unable to compile
Pine, for the reasons I outlined in message 2002.01/msg00076.

Thanks

Dan Hatton

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