Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!rutgers!mailrus!umix!honey
From: honey@umix.cc.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: central mail server
Keywords: mail
Message-ID: <4899@umix.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 8 Oct 88 13:56:21 GMT
References: <9449@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
Organization: Center for Information Technology Integration, Univ of Michigan
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UUCP-Path: {uunet,rutgers}!umix!honey

i abandoned the flock/lockf/whatever approach for file system locks.  i
put my locks in /usr/spool/mail/.lock and use the atomic link trick.

not high tech, i know, but i have suns, vaxen, and rt's nfs-ed
together, and don't want to worry about who has a lock protocol that
works.

	peter