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From: berg@marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Delivery to home directories
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Date: 30 Apr 91 08:30:13 GMT
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Neil Rickert writes:
>Gary Mills writes:
>  BSD binmail uses flock.  I think SUN binmail uses both this and a
>lock file (perhaps mailboxname.lock), but I am not certain about that.
> The Sun version of Mail uses the same locking as the Sun version of binmail.

Both Sun binmail and Mail use mailboxname.lock as a lockfile.
They don't seem to use flock though.
--
Sincerely,                 berg@marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de
           Stephen R. van den Berg.
"I code it in 5 min, optimize it in 90 min, because it's so well optimized:
it runs in only 5 min.  Actually, most of the time I optimize programs."