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From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: File locking in SVR3
Message-ID: <10530@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 22 Aug 88 12:53:20 GMT
References: <2861@quacky.mips.COM>
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Reply-To: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
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In article <2861@quacky.mips.COM> dce@mips.COM (David Elliott) writes:

>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, ...

SVR3 does have file locking, look at the man page for lockf() in
section 3.
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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