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+syncdir is a small library that makes the link() system call
+synchronous. This is necessary when using qmail with the queue on
+a filesystem that doesn't perform link() synchronously, such as
+Linux's ext2fs, Reiserfs, SGI's XFS, and BSD FFS with softupdates.