Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:48:20 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: hua@chromatic.com (Ernest Hua) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BUG/PATCH: mtools-3.0 Message-ID: <199610260748.JAA13195@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199610252103.OAA13997@ohio.chromatic.com> from Ernest Hua at "Oct 25, 96 02:03:33 pm"
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As Ernest Hua wrote: > The second problem is that flock() is apparently not supported, so I > kludged up something which warns that the locking mechanism (for > writes) is not working. flock() is not the correct way to lock a device, you can only lock files with it. (Actually, i don't see a way to lock a device at all...) -- 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. ;-)
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