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From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: using $HOME/RMAIL.lock as the movemail lock file
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Date: 24 May 88 18:35:04 GMT
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In-reply-to: jwt@tupelo.cs.duke.edu's message of 24 May 88 16:02:09 GMT

jwt@tupelo.cs.duke.edu writes:
	   Has anyone considered having movemail create a lock file in
   $HOME/RMAIL.lock instead of in /usr/spool/mail/$USER.lock?  Are there any 
   reasons why this shouldn't be done?

Yes, there are reasons.  On systems where locking isn't done by use of
flock, it's done by the creation of /usr/spool/mail/$USER.lock.  This
is not a dependency within Emacs; rather, it's a constraint imposed
from without, by the way that /bin/mail delivers.

--Karl