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- From: vincent@cad.gatech.edu (Vincent Fox)
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- Subject: Re: Timed out on locking mailbox?
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 13:46:42 -0500
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, CAE/CAD Lab
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- In <C0C5Au.G88@ccu.umanitoba.ca> mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) writes:
- >>It' obviosly a lockd related problem. I pop open my Console window, and
- >>for every attempt to lock the mailbox I get:
- >>lock-manager: RPC error: (9) RPC: Program/version mismatch
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- >I'd recommend not using fcntl locking in elm. Sun's mail programs,
- >bin/mail, ucb/mail, and mailtool only use flock and file locking.
- >You will avoid many problems with the lock manager this way. Until
- >Sun starts using fcntl locking, I think we should avoid it too.
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- Yes, but flock only appears to work for local systems anyway. Could I
- just disable both flock and lockf and use dot-locking only? Would this
- pose any disadvantage on either the server or it's dataless clients?
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