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From: perl@rdin.UUCP (Robert Perlberg)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: LCK. files and cu (low flame)
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Date: Fri, 2-Sep-83 15:43:59 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  2 15:43:59 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Sep-83 00:08:08 EDT
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Uucp will not honor LCK. files that are more than 1.5 hours  old.
This  is  well  documented  and  I think it's a good idea, but it
gives me one big headache: cu does not touch the LCK. file  after
it  creates it so if you are using cu for more than 1.5 hours and
a uucico starts up --  BOOM!   Why  hasn't  someone  at  Bell  or
Berkeley discovered this and corrected it?  It's in every version
of UNIX I've used.  Remember, we don't all have  source  licenses
and many of us have to rely on fixes from our suppliers.

And while they're at it, they might want to  improve  it.   Since
orphaned  LCK.  files  are such a problem, they should be touched
more often.  As long as every program in the  system  that  deals
with  LCK.  files  assumes  the  same standard for how old a LCK.
file can be, you could use anything, like five  or  ten  minutes.
This  would  improve  the  delay time when someone tries to use a
line that has an orphaned LCK. file.

Robert Perlberg
Resource Dynamics Inc.
New York
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