lock files or flock() - which does /bin/mail use?

Carl S. Gutekunst csg at pyramid.pyramid.com
Fri Jul 21 13:48:58 AEST 1989


OSx 4.1 and later does it the 4.3BSD way: flock(). In both universes, I might
add. It was easier to add flock() to the SVR3 mailers than to add lock files
to the 4.3BSD mailers.

<csg>



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