lockfile -- posix compliant?

N.J. Thomas njt at ayvali.org
Thu Jan 17 11:15:47 PST 2008


* Erik Trulsson <ertr1013 at student.uu.se> [2008-01-17 02:25:11+0100]:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 08:03:29PM -0500, N.J. Thomas wrote:
> > Can someone tell me if lockfile(1) is a POSIX-defined utility?
> 
> Considering that lockfile(1) is usually installed as part of procmail

Ah, gotcha. Coincidently, the RHEL 5, OpenBSD 4.1, and FreeBSD 6.2 boxes
that I tested it on all happened to have procmail installed and I
assumed that lockfile(1) was a POSIX util.

Thanks for the heads up.

Thomas

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