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Re: Policy wrt mail lockfile (section 4.3)



John Goerzen wrote:

>Why are we using dotfile locking only?  There are much better
>mechanisms (flock, etc.) that should be used instead.  I can see no
>place where dotfile locking would work and flock-style locking would fail...

We don't have a lock daemon for NFS.
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Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet.
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double
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