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From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Will ELM ever use lockf()?
Message-ID: <27FA2415.51F6@tct.com>
Date: 3 Apr 91 18:51:00 GMT
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According to dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi):
>It turns out that lockf() uses a lock daemon and, under SunOS at least,
>this doesn't always work.

Okay, so SunOS is broken.  This is news?  :-(

>NFS does make symbolic links links correctly.

It makes them correctly, but not reliably.  Network lossage and/or
resource exhaustion can cause a successful symlink() call to return
failure.

My advice?  Use lockf() and avoid SunOS.
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