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From: oved@techunix.BITNET (Oved Ben-Aroya)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm 2.1 PL1
Summary: Elm still unusable on BSD systems
Keywords: BSD, flock, lock mail file
Message-ID: <6804@techunix.BITNET>
Date: 20 Dec 88 13:06:36 GMT
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Organization: Technion, Israel Inst. Tech., Haifa Israel
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I was *very* disappointed to see that Elm2.1 PL1 still needs write
permission in the spool mail directory, for a lock file.  Maybe that's
ok for system V, but 4.3 bsd unix uses the flock system call.  If your
system is bsd, you can lose new mail, or the the mailbox may get corrupted:
Elm thinks he can re-write the mbox, and so does sendmail...

I believe that long ago, someone said that he had done the needed work
for bsd.  I was hoping this 'flock' stuff found it's way to the
integrated new Elm version.

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Dr. Oved Ben-Aroya, Taub Computer Center, Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel
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