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From: conklin@kaleida.com (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.mail.misc
Subject: mailbox locking
Date: 28 Apr 93 12:18:20
Organization: Kaleida Labs, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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If I'm not mistaken, BSD once used a lock file to mail the mailbox.
386BSD's mail.local uses kernel locks only.
I've heard that using locking kernel locks over NFS has been
problematic. Have those problems been fixed, or should I avoid
networked mail directories?
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