On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 10:33:56 -0400, Carl Mummert wrote:
> Unfortunately, I can think of about 5 different ways of locking a file.
For mail programs, this is standardised within Debian
(http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch5.html#s5.5). They use
liblockfile, or implement dot locking themse
>What is the difference between these two lock methods, and which one would be
>considered to be most "stable"? I do also have the option to use both, but why
>would I want that?
Kernel locking relies on a flag to the open() command which tells the
krnel to reserve the file. dot-locking relises o
Hi,
my mail reader (XFmail) has an option to lock the mail spool with either
dotlock or kernel lock. Lately (potato) I have had some problems with XFmail
and locking of the spool file. It crashes after the file is locked, and I have
to kill the lock process.
What is the difference between these t
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