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Aucbvax.4175 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Fri Oct 2 11:07:02 1981 mail locking problems >From ARPAVAX.wnj@Berkeley Fri Oct 2 11:02:53 1981 There is a bug in the 4.0bsd locking code for the mail program. The bug is that the different programs use different names for the lock file: the correct way is to use a file name ending in ``.lock'' in /usr/spool/mail; I don't remember right now what the broken program was using.

Diff also the ``v6mail.c'' program, in /usr/src/cmd/berknet/v6mail.c, I believe the bug fix is there.

This is fixed in 4.1bsd and also by applying the 4.0bsd->4.1bsd upgrade.

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