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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Michael Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How are mailfiles locked under 4.n and System III/V?
Message-ID: <12733@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 14-May-87 01:57:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: teknowle.12733
Posted: Thu May 14 01:57:56 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 08:14:45 EDT
References: <7384@boring.mcvax.cwi.nl>
Reply-To: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP (Michael Khaw)
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Summary: ultrix 1.2 uses flock

In article <7384@boring.mcvax.cwi.nl> jack@mcvax.cwi.nl (Jack Jansen) writes:

>How do various unices lock mailfiles?

Ultrix 1.2 appears (we don't have source) to use flock().  I deduce this
from having to #define MAIL_USE_FLOCK for Gnu Emacs' movemail utility to
get it to work.

Mike Khaw
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