Subject: Folder Locks ...

From: "Christopher \"AWOL\" Curtis" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 14:14:30 -0400 (EDT)

I often use Pine remotely by modem and suspend it with a ^Z 
signal.  Without fail, I end up re-executing pine in the same 
session.  The second copy of pine tries to get a file lock from 
the first, but is unable, so loads itself in "readonly" mode.  
This is fine;  I quit and go back to the first instance of pine.  
However, this session has also become "readonly."  This is not a 
major problem for me, but I was just wondering why both sessions 
became read only when neither of them had a file lock.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 13:02:36 -0700 (PDT)

When you resume the second session, it still has the signal waiting to 
give up its lock.  The problem is that since it was suspended, it could 
not acknowledge the loss of the lock...

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From: Matt Messina <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 17:36:30 -0400 (EDT)

I've also accidently run two copies of Pine, but I've never had the first 
copy become readonly.
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From: "Christopher \"AWOL\" Curtis" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 04:22:41 -0400 (EDT)

> not acknowledge the loss of the lock...

Well, this isn't true, either.  I was sitting at the INBOX folder's index 
list, hit ^Z, and typed "bg".  It said that pine was running in the 
background, but each session still locked.  We have a Sun Sparc 2 under 
SunOS 4.1.x and I call in via a Xyplex server.  I have yet to try it 
under X-Windows, but if this isn't a known problem with the Suns, I'll 
tell ya what happens there as well.