gz@eddie.MIT.EDU (Gail Zacharias) (10/15/87)
I'm trying to write a program which needs to modify a user's mail file, and hence need to get exclusive access to it for a short time. I know that on BSD systems I've used, one could create a file called foo.lock to get a lock on foo's mail file. This doesn't seem to work on the Xenix system (I was able to get mail delivered while a .lock file existed). Is there an equivalent protocol that Xenix mail/uucp obey? I'm using SCO Xenix if it matters. ...!mit-eddie!spt!gz