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From: robigo@winternet.com (John Boggs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Elm thinks files are locked
Date: 4 Aug 1995 11:50:13 GMT
Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc
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I've compiled Elm, and it compiled cleanly (2.4, PL22;
FreeBSD-2.0.5-950622-SNAP). When I run Elm now it tells me that it's
waiting for my mailbox to stop being used by another program.
When I had this problem before (different elm, earlier FreeBSD), I
just compiled Elm with either just fctl or just flock locking. That's
what I did this time (I tried both just fctl and just flock), but it
won't work. I am using dot-locking.
I hope I'm just missing something easy. I've gotten Elm to work with
FreeBSD before, but this time I'm stumped.
--
John D. Boggs \ The great thing about human language is
jdb@robigo.winternet.com \ that it prevents us from sticking to
Don't tread on me. \ the matter at hand. -Lewis Thomas