From: utzoo!decvax!cca!greep@RAND-UNIX@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: mail locking glitch
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2340
Posted: Fri Jul 30 05:24:11 1982
Received: Sat Jul 31 02:43:11 1982

Date: Tuesday, 29 Jun 1982 02:14-PDT
This sort of constant hassle with lock files just goes to show that
it is a ridiculous way to do it, especially when putting a simple
locking mechanism in the kernel is so easy and takes care of so many
cases so simply.  Let us hope that such a mechanism eventually makes
it into all the versions of Unix around.