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From: scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Mail locking...
Message-ID: <588@dtscp1.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 89 23:01:07 GMT
Organization: Digital Transmission Systems (a subsidiary of DCA), Duluth, GA
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I know this has been discussed before, so please respond by email.

I am trying to write some software for mail that will interact with our
internal network and must co-exist with the mailers on our bsd-based
systems (actually, SunOS 3.5 and SunOS 4.0) and with a System V Release
3.2 system.  I need to know how these systems lock the mail file.
Does /usr/.../*.lock work on both of these?  I know that our v7-like
system uses the execute bit, but I do not have the sources to the other
systems.

Any help is appreciated.
-- 
scott barman
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