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Article #163Re: truncated files?
From: Fletcher Mattox
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1989 18:15
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1989 18:15
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In article <4434@ogccse.ogc.edu> argv@sun.UUCP (Dan Heller) writes: >[ The following was typed by Dan Heller and sent to me for posting because > he's having some news problems. -- Bart ] >There is still the problem that not all MTAs lock the folder when appending >mail to it. There's not much mush can do in that case. The MTA is busted. >Granted, this is more applicatable to older MTAs, but I've >known some sun sendmail's that don't lock /usr/spool/mail/$USER folders >as recently as SunOS 3.2. Actually sendmail isn't involved. /bin/mail delivers to /usr/spool/mail/$USER and the SunOS 3.2 /bin/mail does attempt to flock(2) it. Fletcher
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!fletcher From: fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush Subject: Re: truncated files? Message-ID: <420@ai.cs.utexas.edu> Date: 28 Aug 89 18:15:32 GMT References: <6744@cs.utexas.edu> <4326@ogccse.ogc.edu> <4434@ogccse.ogc.edu> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 18