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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: lock files or flock() - which does /bin/mail use?
Keywords: flock mail
Message-ID: <78015@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 21 Jul 89 03:48:58 GMT
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Reply-To: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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OSx 4.1 and later does it the 4.3BSD way: flock(). In both universes, I might
add. It was easier to add flock() to the SVR3 mailers than to add lock files
to the 4.3BSD mailers.

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