On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 
> You are dreaming. Unix have nothing that prevents several people from
> readin and writing to the same file. It's a free world... :-)
> (Now, RSX is another matter... :-)

You have spoiled me on the pdp-11. *sigh* if we only had some cooling...
> 
> No, getty don't know, and don't care about /var/spool/lock, and
> neither does cat, echo, csh or just about all other programs in Unix.
> Thos who *do* care about /var/spool/lock are the exception, even though
> those are the ones you usually use most of the time you want to talk out
> on a serial port.
> 
> And it's still just a software issue, the operating system don't give you
> any protection.

Yikes. So i am free to shoot myself at will. nice to know.

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