[mpop-users] Explanation of the locking mechanism

[Dawn Light <dawnlight@...19...>]

I want to run mpop using cron so I need to make sure locking is working 
properly so that mpop will not start a session while a previous session in 
running.

Look at this:

dawn@...20...:~$ mpop -C mpoprc & mpop -C mpoprc
[1] 6382
some_user at pop.somemail.com:
no messages
mynameislight at pop.somemail.com:
no messages
dawn@...20...:~$

And this:

dawn@...20...:~$ mpop -C mpoprc

[1]+  Stopped                 mpop -C mpoprc
dawn@...20...:~$ ps
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
 9807 pts/2    00:00:00 bash
 6490 pts/2    00:00:00 mpop
 6495 pts/2    00:00:00 ps
dawn@...20...:~$ mpop -C mpoprc
mynameislight at pop.gmail.com:
no messages
dawn@...20...:~$ bg
[1]+ mpop -C mpoprc &
dawn@...20...:~$ mynameislight at pop.gmail.com:
no messages

[1]+  Done                    mpop -C mpoprc
dawn@...20...:~$

it seems as though the two mpop processes are running at the same time.

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