RE: FAT32, "lock count exceeded", mutt etc.

["Harig, Mark A." <maharig at idirect dot net>]

If it is an option, you might consider
running the Windows 'convert' utility
to change your filesystem from FAT32
to NTFS.  Your operating system (Win2K)
support NTFS, of course.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott W Brim [mailto:sbrim@cisco.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 12:11 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: FAT32, "lock count exceeded", mutt etc.
> 
> 
> Looking through the mail archives I can't tell what the 
> recommended fix
> is for running mutt/fetchmail/procmail and all on a FAT32 
> partition, wrt
> file locking problems.  There was plenty of discussion last 
> summer but I
> can't find a resolution.  So far I've tried CYGWIN=nontsec, and
> reconfiguring and recompiling mutt.  No luck.  Help?  What 
> are the magic
> words?
> 
> The output from mutt -v is appended (Outlook Express is going to have
> great fun wrapping it).
> 
> Thanks ... Scott
> 
> 
> [12:06:51 ~]$ mutt -v
> Mutt 1.4i (2002-05-29)
> Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Michael R. Elkins and others.
> Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
> Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
> 
> System: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.15(0.63/3/2) (i686) [using ncurses 5.2]
> Compile options:
> -DOMAIN
> -DEBUG
> -HOMESPOOL  -USE_SETGID  +USE_DOTLOCK  -DL_STANDALONE
> +USE_FCNTL  -USE_FLOCK
> +USE_POP  +USE_IMAP  -USE_GSS  +USE_SSL  -USE_SASL
> -HAVE_REGCOMP  +USE_GNU_REGEX
> +HAVE_COLOR  +HAVE_START_COLOR  +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD  +HAVE_BKGDSET
> +HAVE_CURS_SET  +HAVE_META  +HAVE_RESIZETERM
> +HAVE_PGP  +BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS  -SUN_ATTACHMENT
> +ENABLE_NLS
> +LOCALES_HACK  -HAVE_WC_FUNCS  -HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET  
> -HAVE_LANGINFO_YE
> SEXPR
> +HAVE_ICONV  -ICONV_NONTRANS  -HAVE_GETSID  -HAVE_GETADDRINFO
> -ISPELL
> SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
> MAILPATH="/var/spool/mail"
> PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt"
> SYSCONFDIR="/etc"
> EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
> -MIXMASTER
> To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt-dev@mutt.org>.
> To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility.
> 
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