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NAME

Mail::Box::Locker::Multi - lock a folder in all ways which work

INHERITANCE

Mail::Box::Locker::Multi
  is a Mail::Box::Locker
  is a Mail::Reporter

SYNOPSIS

See Mail::Box::Locker

DESCRIPTION

The ::Multi locker locks a folder in each way it can. This way, the chance is highest that any other program will leave the folder alone during our access to it.

NFS-lock and Flock are tried. More may be added when the ways to lock are extended. DotLock overlaps with NFS-lock, but NFS-lock is safer, so that version is preferred.

METHODS

Constructors

Mail::Box::Locker::Multi->new(OPTIONS)

    You may also pass all OPTIONS understood by the initiated lockers used by the multi locker.

    Option --Defined in     --Default
expires  Mail::Box::Locker  1 hour
file     Mail::Box::Locker  undef
folder   Mail::Box::Locker  <undef>
log      Mail::Reporter   'WARNINGS'
method   Mail::Box::Locker  'MULTI'
timeout  Mail::Box::Locker  10 seconds
trace    Mail::Reporter   'WARNINGS'
use                       <all possible>

    . expires => SECONDS

    . file => FILENAME

    . folder => FOLDER

    . log => LEVEL

    . method => STRING|CLASS|ARRAY

    . timeout => SECONDS|'NOTIMEOUT'

    . trace => LEVEL

    . use => ARRAY-of-(NAMES|LOCKER)

      Array of locker type NAMES or LOCKER objects to be used to lock one folder. The type NAMES are converted into objects. When you create your own LOCKER objects, be sure to set the timeout very short (preferrably to 1).

      Some locking types are not available on some platforms, so they will not be excluded from the default list (NFS POSIX Flock).

    example: using a subset of multi-lockers

    my $locker = Mail::Box::Locker::Multi->new(use => ['DOTLOCK','FLOCK']);

The Locker

$obj->filename([FILENAME])

$obj->folder([FOLDER])

$obj->lockers

    Returns a list with all locker objects used by this object.

$obj->name

Locking

$obj->hasLock

$obj->isLocked

$obj->lock(FOLDER)

$obj->unlock

Error handling

$obj->AUTOLOAD

$obj->addReport(OBJECT)

$obj->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])

Mail::Box::Locker::Multi->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])

$obj->errors

$obj->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])

Mail::Box::Locker::Multi->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])

$obj->logPriority(LEVEL)

Mail::Box::Locker::Multi->logPriority(LEVEL)

$obj->logSettings

$obj->notImplemented

$obj->report([LEVEL])

$obj->reportAll([LEVEL])

$obj->trace([LEVEL])

$obj->warnings

Cleanup

$obj->DESTROY

$obj->inGlobalDestruction

DIAGNOSTICS

Error: Package $package does not implement $method.

    Fatal error: the specific package (or one of its superclasses) does not implement this method where it should. This message means that some other related classes do implement this method however the class at hand does not. Probably you should investigate this and probably inform the author of the package.

SEE ALSO

This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.088, built on March 19, 2009. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/

LICENSE

Copyrights 2001-2009 by Mark Overmeer. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html