I just noticed that my mail scripts' exclusive locks don't command any respect when the files to which they're writing live on an HFS+ AppleShare volume, in /Volumes/. Should I be surprised by this? The competing scripts are all running on the same machine, and block as expected when run on local files.
If flock doesn't work on remote volumes, is there a good packaged fallback, short of writing and removing dopey little files named '.lock'? Thanks. -nat
