On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Johnny Chi-Lung Lam wrote:

> Does anyone know if the error occurs because you can't obtain a file
> lock (via flock) on a device file?

There were two types of locking, and only one works, I believe.  I'll have
to try some patches to the source and see if I can get some sort of
locking working.  The lack of locking is the best reason to only let root
run it right now....

BTW, where can I pull the current version of those sources?

Later,

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