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From: owens-christopher@YALE.ARPA (Christopher Owens)
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Subject: file-locking on apollo
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Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 17:13:46 EDT
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Sorry if you get two copies of this; mailer trouble.

I am toying with the idea of writing file locking code to use the
Apollo system calls. But I want to be philosophically consistent with
what GNU-emacs does now, and I don't want to do it at all if someone
else has already done it.  So....
1) Why does GNU-emacs manage its own file-locking instead of using
system built-ins?
2) Where else besides the obvious filelock.c do I need to hook in to
the existing code?
3) Has anybody else already done this?

thanks,