Quoth Philip Hazel on Fri, Jul 07, 2000:
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Jason J. Horton wrote:
>
> > Quick question: on FreeBSD using the exim from /usr/ports, does exim default to
> > dot locking or flock()? If the pop3 server uses dot locking, and exim uses
> > flock,
> > will this cause problems?
>
> It uses either lock files or fcntl() or both; the default is to
> use both, and I would guess that the FreeBSD port leaves the default
> alone.
Correct. FreeBSD's configure.default is slightly different from
the original one (and not updated enough -- no mention of
authentication configuration, although the version of the port in
FreeBSD 4.0 is 3.13), but the behaviour is only FreeBSDized, not
really changed.
Vadik.
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