[opendmarc-users] History file name

[Murray S. Kucherawy]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Marcos wrote:
> I'd like to separate the history file automatically, without using 
> flock, as this could cause a pause in opendmarc while other process 
> handles the same file. And, using a new file automatically, I wouldn't 
> need to clean the file before read data.

If you rename the history file, the next arriving message will just create 
a new one and begin locking it.  Any locks on the old one will go away as 
soon as the last opendmarc thread is done using it, and then your reader 
can import or otherwise use the data, and then remove it.

-MSK