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Date:      Thu, 11 Apr 1996 16:45:55 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: /var/mail default permissions??
Message-ID:  <9604112045.AA16355@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199604112040.NAA04764@phaeton.artisoft.com>
References:  <9604111512.AA14847@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199604112040.NAA04764@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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<<On Thu, 11 Apr 1996 13:40:27 -0700 (MST), Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> 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

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