At 11:17 PM -0400 4/9/02, Scott McDermott wrote: > > One problem with that solution is that lock is by convention >> considered dead and removable by the MDA after 6 minutes, and a POP >> session can go longer. > >I don't know what you mean by `convention.'
From the man page for maillock(3MAIL) on Solaris:
If a lockfile already exists, and it has not been modified in the
last 5 minutes, maillock() will remove the lockfile and set its own
lockfile.
