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mailbox.MH.lock()

lock() unlock()

Three locking mechanisms are used—dot locking and, if available, the flock() and lockf() system calls. For MH mailboxes, locking the mailbox means locking the .mh_sequences file and, only for the duration of any operations that affect them, locking individual message files.

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2016-10-07 17:36:51

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