Re: Forking 'lockfile' code?

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Bart Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote=
:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Olaf TNSB wrote:
>
>> What I really want to know is am I re-inventing the wheel? =A0Has this
>> already been done by someone before?
>
> The maildrop package comes with a very similar program called lockmail.
> Also there's a C library maillock(3x) that has shipped for years on som=
e
> unix distributions (Solaris for one, IIRC), though I believe it only lo=
cks
> the system mail spool, not any arbitrary file.

Thanks Bart.  Didn't know about them.

maillock doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for - mail spool locking
as you suggested and the man page I just read says the routines are
obsolete.

lockmail seems to have the "problems" that I have with lockfile - I
still need to install maildrop to get the limited functionality I
need.

Unless someone else comes up with another alternative I will look at
forking off lockfile.  When/If I get it working I'll post a link back
here in case this question comes up again.

O.