iiitsh@cybaswan.UUCP (Steve Hosgood) (01/22/91)
I would like to know how 'mailx' (running on a Pyramid under OSx) locks the user's mail spool file before altering it. Obviously this must be the same method used by the delivery agent! The spool file is '/usr/spool/mail/$LOGNAME'. I tried using the fcntl system, but mail happily delivers to the file regardless! There does not seem to be any use of a '$LOGNAME.lck' file in the spool directory. Help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Steve | WALES: "If Wales was iiitsh@pyr.swan.ac.uk | flattened out, it would ..or in Britain, where we drive on the other side: | be bigger than England". iiitsh@uk.ac.swan.pyr | - Gren.