lockspool man page on MirBSD

lockspool man page on MirBSD

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LOCKSPOOL(1)		     BSD Reference Manual		  LOCKSPOOL(1)

NAME
     lockspool - lock user's system mailbox

SYNOPSIS
     lockspool [username]

DESCRIPTION
     lockspool is useful for a client mail program to attain proper locking.
     lockspool obtains a username.lock for the calling user and retains it un-
     til stdin is closed or a signal like SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP is re-
     ceived. Additionally, the superuser may specify the name of a user in
     order to lock a different mailbox.

     If lockspool is able to create the lock file, "1" is written to stdout,
     otherwise "0" is written and an error message is written to stderr.
     lockspool will try up to 10 times to get the lock (sleeping for a short
     period in between tries).

     The lockspool utility exits 0 on success, and 1 if an error occurs.

FILES
     /var/mail/username.lock  user's mail lock file

SEE ALSO
     mail(1), mail.local(8), sendmail(8)

HISTORY
     The lockspool program appeared in OpenBSD 2.4.

MirOS BSD #10-current	       August 13, 1998				     1

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