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From: fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: dead.letter locked twice
Message-ID: <10703@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 31 Jul 90 15:05:59 GMT
References: <9007310344.AA25603@cse.ogi.edu>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Barton E. Schaefer writes:

>What this should mean is that you have a file called
>    /v/ai/v0/fletcher/dead.letter.lock
>which was for some reason left behind after a previous ~q or interrupt.

Yep.  On closer examination, I see that the lock file from
the previous ~q isn't being removed because close_lock()
tries to unlink(~/dead.letter.lock) without first expanding
the ~.  The return value of unlink() is ignored so the
user never realises it failed.