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Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!portal.gmu.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!murdoch!not-for-mail From: wfp5p@virginia.edu (Bill Pemberton) Subject: Re: elm 2.4 and FreeBSD X-Nntp-Posting-Host: tigger.itc.virginia.edu Message-ID: <DtyyMw.18K@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia References: <jmanley-2906960000510001@fw42.metronet.com> <4r3peo$s7j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <31D6C791.4746@me.pvamu.edu> <4rc156$crm@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 13:25:43 GMT Lines: 24 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.elm:19647 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22713 In article <4rc156$crm@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >Chris Schmidt <cschmidt@me.pvamu.edu> wrote: > >> Why not use dot-file locking. > >Because we have a working fcntl() (or flock()), so it's not needed. > >Because it requires elm to run setgid, and it requires the mail spool >directory to be group-writable. This is a step backwards security- >wise. > >The only justification for this is to work around the not-yet- >functional NFS file locking in case of an NFS-share mail spool. > Or if you have one of the many local delivery agents that don't recognize anything but dot locking.... -- Bill