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In <1ia0miINNdov@cae.cad.gatech.edu> vincent@cad.gatech.edu (Vincent Fox) writes:

>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.

>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?

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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-Gary Mills-         -Networking Group-          -U of M Computer Services-