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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: elm 2.4 and FreeBSD 2.0
Date: 6 Jun 1995 11:30:19 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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Witold Swierzy <swierzy@tc3.ich.us.edu.pl> wrote:
>: Are you sure you didn't reverse this sentence? Dot-style-locking
>: requires write access to the directory.
>Yes ,it requires write permissions to the directory /tmp - elm creates
>there files named mbox.<user_name>...
Indeed, elm creates temp files in /tmp, but /tmp should be mode 1777
anyway. But this is (IMHO) _not_ related to the lock file locking
method in question here. The latter is done in the mail spool, and
it's the only method allowing to lock the mail spool file if it's NFS
mounted between several machines (which usually don't have a shared
/tmp).
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)