Bug in mailx(1)

[Kriss Allan Schmidt, Unix System Administrator]

In article <150 at caspian.dde.uucp>, peb at dde.uucp (Per Baekgaard) writes:
> From article <14551 at bfmny0.UUCP>, by tneff at bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff):
> > ... when you run mailx(1) ...  with, the -e option ... [it]
> > leaves ... [the] lock file dangling after it exits ...
> 
> Same bug exists in the interactive 386/ix system, release 2.0.0, with a
> mailx claiming itself to be version 3.1.
> 
It's also present in Microports Unix System V/386 Release 3.0, Version 3.0e.
A what of our mailx revealed only that it was the "Final Release".
BTW, we're running this on a Zenith 386.
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