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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: Mandatory locking?
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On Tuesday, 24 August 1999 at 22:41:15 -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>
> It is clear to me that BSD won't do this. SysV and Linux have
> this feature. Linux runs everywhere that FreeBSD does and has
> better features too... so why run BSD at all?

I assume you're talking about mandatory locking.  Yes, you're right,
FreeBSD has no merit, so why bother even reading the mailing lists?

Greg
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