Re: mailbox locking in debian

1996-10-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, Loic Prylli wrote: > >> So what is the proper way to lock a user mailbox ? > >The proper way is with the .lock file. Policy manual 4.3 >documents this. > >You should file bug reports against any programs tha

Re: mailbox locking in debian

1996-10-12 Thread Guy Maor
On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, Loic Prylli wrote: > So what is the proper way to lock a user mailbox ? The proper way is with the .lock file. Policy manual 4.3 documents this. You should file bug reports against any programs that use a different method. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-

mailbox locking in debian

1996-10-12 Thread Loic Prylli
Hello, I have seen that smail use "file locking" to lock a user mailbox while manipulating it (it creates a /var/spool/mail/.lock file), like I suppose most others mail programs in debian. But a least the mail program from the mailx package do locking by calls to flock. I am not sure, if in som