[comp.sys.sun] mail locking

richard%aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) (04/06/90)

Can someone tell me what locking mechanisms are used by /bin/mail and
/usr/ucb/mail under SunOS 3.x and 4.0.x (e.g. flock(), lockf(), lockfile
in /usr/spool/mail) ?

-- Richard

Richard Tobin,                       JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed             
AI Applications Institute,           ARPA:  R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
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