mail locking

Phil Ngai phil at amd70.UUCP
Thu Mar 22 15:30:04 AEST 1984


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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