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From: dudek@frapray.ksr.com (Glen Dudek)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Problem With Network Disconnects And Locks
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Date: 4 May 89 00:14:00 GMT
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In article <5114@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) writes:
>It's not exactly a matter of *voting* :-). My understanding is that 
>some older BSD systems use .lock files and some newer BSD systems use 
>flock(). The problem is that Configure has no good way to tell which 
>locking method is used.
>
>Okay. Any one out there who has a BSD UNIX whose mailers used .lock files?
>(I'm almost sure there were some right among the elm developers.)

As far as I know, Sun OS (at least as of 3.5, probably 4.0 as well) still
uses .lock files since flock() is not supported across NFS.

You made the right choice :-)
--
Glen Dudek
dudek@ksr.com (ksr!dudek@harvard.harvard.edu)