From: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 7 May 1995 22:36:27 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (main): Increase lock timeout to five minutes.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-19.34~4112
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=66a8ad0fd41daca7da92b0cecc0c504a940f95ba;p=emacs.git

(main): Increase lock timeout to five minutes.
---

diff --git a/lib-src/movemail.c b/lib-src/movemail.c
index 36a837e9310..7160ae206cb 100644
--- a/lib-src/movemail.c
+++ b/lib-src/movemail.c
@@ -251,11 +251,14 @@ main (argc, argv)
 	break;
       sleep (1);
 
-      /* If lock file is a minute old, unlock it.  */
+      /* If lock file is five minutes old, unlock it.
+	 Five minutes should be good enough to cope with crashes
+	 and wedgitude, and long enough to avoid being fooled
+	 by time differences between machines.  */
       if (stat (lockname, &st) >= 0)
 	{
 	  now = time (0);
-	  if (st.st_ctime < now - 60)
+	  if (st.st_ctime < now - 300)
 	    unlink (lockname);
 	}
     }