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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: elm 2.4 and FreeBSD Date: 2 Jul 1996 20:34:46 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4rc156$crm@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <jmanley-2906960000510001@fw42.metronet.com> <4r3peo$s7j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <31D6C791.4746@me.pvamu.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.elm:19644 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22678 Chris Schmidt <cschmidt@me.pvamu.edu> wrote: > Why not use dot-file locking. Because we have a working fcntl() (or flock()), so it's not needed. Because it requires elm to run setgid, and it requires the mail spool directory to be group-writable. This is a step backwards security- wise. The only justification for this is to work around the not-yet- functional NFS file locking in case of an NFS-share mail spool. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)