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From: dce@mips.COM (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: File locking in SVR3
Message-ID: <2861@quacky.mips.COM>
Date: 22 Aug 88 01:51:21 GMT
Reply-To: dce@mips.COM (David Elliott)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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I've been porting MH to an SVR3-based system, and found that the
locking procedure doesn't work.  What happens is that since SVR3
doesn't have file locking, inc tries to create the file
/usr/mail/,LCK.a{pid}, which it can't do because it can't write
/usr/mail.

Has anyone tried to solve this problem with record locking or
some other means?  For the time being, I have made my /usr/mail
directory mode 777 (nobody gets mail on the machine right now
except for me), but this is unacceptable in the long run.

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David Elliott		dce@mips.com  or  {ames,prls,pyramid,decwrl}!mips!dce