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From: phil@amd70.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: mail locking
Message-ID: <4430@amd70.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 00:30:04 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 22 00:30:04 1984
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Some time ago there was discussion on the proper mode of /usr/spool/mail
and it was pointed out that /usr/ucb/Mail does its locking there so it
needs to be writable. Someone said they moved the locking to /tmp.

Isn't it also necessary to worry about the locking protocol used by
/bin/mail, which /etc/delivermail uses for local mail delivery?

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Phil Ngai (408) 988-7777 {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amd70!phil