Re: locking in /var/mail

[Michael Tatge <Michael.Tatge@xxxxxx>]

* On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 Jay Moore (jaymo@xxxxxxxxxxxx) muttered:
> Does mutt do file locking in /var/mail? If so, does it employ the user's
> privileges to do so? If not, how does it guard against file corruption?

mutt uses mutt_dotlock which as the needed privillages.

ls -l `which mutt_dotlock`
-rwxr-sr-x    1 root     mail        29425 Apr 17 13:07 
/usr/local/bin/mutt_dotlock

ls -l `which mutt`
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     staff      526356 Aug 18 03:25
/usr/local/bin/mutt

HTH,

Michael
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