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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Will ELM ever use lockf()?
Message-ID: <27F120EF.63A3@tct.uucp>
Date: 27 Mar 91 22:47:10 GMT
References: <1991Mar25.193741.12360@coplex.uucp>
Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL
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According to dean@coplex.uucp (Dean Brooks):
>   Elm wants to use "flock()" or ".lock" files.  Smail wants to
>use "flock()", "lockf()" or its own weird type of lock files.

Check the Smail source code -- specifically, sysdep.c.  Smail does use
".lock" files, just like Elm.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
   "All this is conjecture of course, since I *only* post in the nude.
    Nothing comes between me and my t.b.  Nothing."   -- Bill Coderre