In article <199611212032.PAA04120@jekyll.piermont.com>,
	"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
>> Currently, most of the mail programs on NetBSD do "dot" locking.
>> Perhaps it is time to change this to flock() and friends?
> 
> flock doesn't work well over nfs, but dot locking does.

Correct.

> I very much prefer dot locking...

I prefer to have both. That's how I compiled my ELM and it works
pretty well.

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Matthias Scheler
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