From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 11 13:48:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA10827 for current-outgoing; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 13:48:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA10703 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 13:47:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA16355; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 16:45:55 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 16:45:55 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9604112045.AA16355@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /var/mail default permissions?? In-Reply-To: <199604112040.NAA04764@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <9604111512.AA14847@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199604112040.NAA04764@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > If it weren't for NFS mounts, I'd suggest devising a common mail > API and making all mail programs use it. And I would suggest that we already have one, and it consists of the following routines: open(2), flock(2), link(2), unlink(2), read(2), write(2), lseek(2), and close(2) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant