Re: Pine (fwd)

Roland John Turner (rjturner@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au)
Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:57:20 +1100 (EST)

Anton wrote:

> NFS mounting the mail partition tends to result in general chaos. Remote
> file locking on Solaris may be solid, but from the problems with pine
> I'd say it isn't.

Nope. The locking IS solid, but some of the semantics changed from SunOS 4 to
Solaris 2.

If you are using mail apps written for SunOS, they will have problems with
locking in a Solaris environment. I forget why.

- Raz