kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (01/19/89)
> You can configure deliver to use any combination of kernel locking and/or > file creation locking, and you can vary delivery behavior based on just > about anything. Fcntl() or lockf(), for example. This brings up a problem that I've run into before. How do you lock something that is located on an remote NFS file system? Some people here would like to have their mail delivered to a random directory instead of /usr/spool/mail/<userid>. Other people would like to be able to read mail from any machine. This requires some other locking mechanism. Suns have some kind of specialized daemon, but that isn't generally available. Are lockfiles the only thing left? Does anyone has something that is the equivalent of a network flock? Patrick Wolfe System Manager, Kuck & Associates pat@kai.com {uiucuxc,sequent,alliant,uunet}!kailand!pat pat@kai.com@uiucvmd.bitnet pat%kai.com@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu pat%kai.com@uiucuxc.arpa