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Date:      Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:48:20 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        hua@chromatic.com (Ernest Hua)
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BUG/PATCH: mtools-3.0
Message-ID:  <199610260748.JAA13195@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199610252103.OAA13997@ohio.chromatic.com> from Ernest Hua at "Oct 25, 96 02:03:33 pm"

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As Ernest Hua wrote:

> The second problem is that flock() is apparently not supported, so I
> kludged up something which warns that the locking mechanism (for
> writes) is not working.

flock() is not the correct way to lock a device, you can only lock
files with it.

(Actually, i don't see a way to lock a device at all...)
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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