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From: bt455s39@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Carmen Hardina)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.i386
Subject: SCO XENIX 2.3.1 mail locking method
Keywords: mail sco xenix flock locking
Message-ID: <4458@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 30 Jul 89 04:05:09 GMT
Organization: University of Hawaii
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Could someone please tell tell me which method SCO XENIX 386 System V 2.3.1
uses to interlock access to /usr/spool/mail/$USER.  Does it use the flock
system call?  is it even existent? (flock) ...or does it use a lock file
named /usr/spool/mail/$USER.lock?

The reason I ask, is because when I tried to make GNU Emacs 18.54 assuming
that there was a flock system call, it failed when trying to compile
movemail.c.  It had an unresolved external...  __flocking or something like
that.  Has anyone else experienced this problem?  If so, why did GNU make
the flock system call the default for XENIX 386 in s-xenix.h?

					Thanks in advance,
						--Carmen

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