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  1. Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 16:42:49 MST
  2. Message-Id: <199704011939.OAA19258@archive.cs.Virginia.EDU>
  3. To: tc@charlie.cns.iit.edu
  4. Cc: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
  5. Subject: Re: file locking in unix Icon 
  6. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Apr 1997 13:38:29 +0100."
  7.              <334101C5.6EED@charlie.cns.iit.edu> 
  8. Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 14:39:52 -0500
  9. From: Norman Ramsey <nr@cs.virginia.edu>
  10. Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
  11. Status: RO
  12. Content-Length: 119
  13.  
  14. Sounds like I'll have to spin:
  15.  
  16.   f := &null
  17.   while /f do f := open("lockfile", "c")
  18.  
  19. does this sound right?
  20.  
  21. Norman
  22.