Re: Frequency of NFS lock problems w/ NFS mounted mail spool

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From: Marc Wiz
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 13:41

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In article <vanepp.715392389@sfu.ca> vanepp@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp) writes:
>As I recall (it has been about a year since I was through this) Elm uses flock()not lockf(), so NFS locking isn't a problem (nor possible for that matter since
>flock() won't work on an NFS file), what does the locking is the .lock file that

This is true on SunOS but not AIX v3.  AIX v3 does support flock over NFS.

Marc


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