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- From: mwiz@mpd.tandem.com (Marc Wiz)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: flock vs. lock files
- Message-ID: <2090@devnull.mpd.tandem.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 17:46:18 GMT
- References: <91454@bu.edu>
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- Organization: Tandem Computers (MPD) Austin, TX
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- In article <91454@bu.edu> amelcuk@buphy.bu.edu (Andre Melcuk) writes:
- >
- > Does AIX use flock for mail handling or does it resort to lock
- >file in /usr/spool/mail?
- >
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- It depends on which program is doing what. It's the age old problem
- of incompatible locking mechanisms being used by different mail programs.
-
- Last I heard someone was working on a fix for this. Peter do you care
- to comment?
-
- Marc
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