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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Problem With Network Disconnects And Locks
Message-ID: <8272@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 23 Apr 89 03:21:57 GMT
References: <996@itivax.iti.org> <112@dsinc.DSI.COM>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <112@dsinc.DSI.COM> syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein) writes:

>Why not just rush in and do pid type locking:  We might in the future,
>but for now, remember that not all systems can do kill(pid, 0).

Nor will this work with remote file systems.  Using RFS, mounting a
common /usr/mail might be a reasonable thing to do but lockfiles containing
pids do not work (if you expect to be able to find out if the process
still exists).

Les Mikesell