Ghost User · bdd40473
--- a/mail_notifier/notifier
+++ b/mail_notifier/notifier
 }

 lock() {
-	while ! mkdir "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; do
-		sleep 1
+	# Try to acquire the lock. But only for a limited amount of time
+	# (15 minutes) to prevent too many waiting notifiers to gather in
+	# case something bad happens. It is started every 5 minutes anyway.
+	for i in `seq 1 900` ; do
+		if mkdir "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+			return
+		fi