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- From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
- Subject: Re: Timed out on locking mailbox?
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:27:28 GMT
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- In <1ia0miINNdov@cae.cad.gatech.edu> vincent@cad.gatech.edu (Vincent Fox) writes:
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- >In <C0C5Au.G88@ccu.umanitoba.ca> mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) writes:
- >>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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- To be most compatible, you should use the same locking scheme that
- competing mail agents and the mail delivery program, bin/mail, use.
- Flock will cause you no trouble, but as you say, it only works locally.
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