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dead.letter locked twice

#454
From: Fletcher Mattox
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 1990 00:39
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[ An earlier version of this escaped with a typo.  I've canceled it.
Apologies for duplicates on the mail list. --Fletcher ]

This is 7.1.2 with DOTLOCK and HOMEMAIL defined.

  cs.utexas.edu% mush -n! fletcher
  To: fletcher
  
  yo
  ~q
  /v/ai/v0/fletcher/dead.letter already locked, waiting................

which will wait forever.  Same thing happens with ~E and with
generating two SIGINTs.  If I "set dead=~/somethingelse", then
the problem goes away.
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Message-ID: <851@ai.cs.utexas.edu>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!fletcher

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!fletcher
From: fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: dead.letter locked twice
Message-ID: <851@ai.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 31 Jul 90 00:39:30 GMT
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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