blutgens at sistina.com said:
> flock is pretty important but the files I am opening shouldn't be
> used by anything else. it's only a $HOME/

_Anything_ else?  How does mail get into the file?  (I occasionally lose
messages that come in while I'm reading mail over NFS because of a lack of
locking...)

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