[Users] [Bug 2828] Use MD5 digest for socket name

[Holger Berndt]

On Sa, 01.12.2012 20:10, Rich Pieri wrote:

>> Then you just found out how the Debian versions that you use do it,
>> not how it's "usually" or always done. Linux is (unfortunately) too
>> diverse for this kind of generalizations.
>
>This is my point: you can't expect an environment variable to be set
>without having a hard dependency. If you aren't ready to make this
>happen then don't even suggest it.

... because ... ?

It's perfectly reasonable to obey system and/or user settings (which
are expressed via environment variables, or otherwise), and fall back to
something else if it's not set.

>> That's cute, but it doesn't impress me much, sorry.
>
>You questioned my insight into mail handling practices and decisions. I
>called you on it. Simple as that.

No. I questioned your insight into the current topic, and in fact, you
continue to demonstrate that you're lacking it. Because...

>> I showed you that you didn't really understand the problem scope in
>> the first place (in the part that you stripped out in your quoting, by
>> coincidence).
>
>There is no scope. Losing mail is the worst thing that can happen.
>Period. Because, in fact, we WERE talking about concurrent access. The
>whole reason that this discussion happened is because Ricardo brought
>it up.

... I explained it to you already, and I am explaining it again because
you still didn't get it: We are _NOT_ talking about concurrent access to
the MAILBOX! Claws Mail will happily let you interact with the same
mailbox at the same time, using --alternate-config-dir.

Holger