[Mimedefang] BIG problems with mimedefang

[David F. Skoll]

WBrown at e1b.org wrote:

>> 3) Atomically rename database.db.new to database.db

> Can you enlightne me on what "Atomically rename" means?

On Linux, type:

   man 2 rename

>From that man page:

   If newpath already exists it will be atomically replaced (subject to  a
   few  conditions - see ERRORS below), so that there is no point at which
   another process attempting to access newpath will find it missing.

Regards,

David.