[H-GEN] Fwd: No Luck Yet

[Greg Black]

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Robert Brockway wrote:

| As a tip, many unix admins avoid the use of symlinks in /dev as they tend
| to mess with file locking.

Many admins, especially those who have lived past lives as
programmers, avoid attempting file locking in /dev -- too many
Unix systems have outright prohibitions on such locks or bugs in
their implementation.

Greg

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