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authorNikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de>2009-03-03 04:33:09 +0100
committerNikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de>2010-07-19 01:13:25 +0200
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Switch mbox locking from flock(2) to posix lockf(2)
flock() locks aren't portable; lockf() locks are.
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.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/>
.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches,
.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>.
-.TH "ARCHIVEMAIL" "1" "08 April 2008" "SP" ""
+.TH "ARCHIVEMAIL" "1" "03 March 2009" "SP" ""
.SH NAME
archivemail \- archive and compress your old email
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ Display brief summary information about how to run \fBarchivemail\fR\&.
When reading an \fBmbox\fR-format mailbox, \fBarchivemail\fR will
create a lockfile with the extension \fI\&.lock\fR so that
procmail will not deliver to the mailbox while it is being processed. It will
-also create an advisory lock on the mailbox using \fBflock\fR(2)\&.
+also create an advisory lock on the mailbox using \fBlockf\fR(2)\&.
\fBarchivemail\fR will also complain and abort if a 3rd-party modifies the
mailbox while it is being read.
.PP