Re: central mail server

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From: Peter Honeyman
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 1988 13:56

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i abandoned the flock/lockf/whatever approach for file system locks.  i
put my locks in /usr/spool/mail/.lock and use the atomic link trick.

not high tech, i know, but i have suns, vaxen, and rt's nfs-ed
together, and don't want to worry about who has a lock protocol that
works.

	peter

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From: honey@umix.cc.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
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Subject: Re: central mail server
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Date: 8 Oct 88 13:56:21 GMT
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