Re: File Locking

[Randall Gellens]

At 5:26 PM -0400 6/6/01, Homer Wilson Smith wrote:

>      Is there a white paper on file locking and how it works, including
>  techniques of use, particularly dotlocking and flock/fcntl?

There may be, but in a nutshell, dot-locking is the most common 
method used for mail spools.  Qpopper always uses dot-locking as well 
as either flock() or fcntl().