I appreciate that the _locking_ works, but dot-locking does not flush
writes or revalidate cached reads on the locked file, does it?
This is a cause of lost mail amongst other things.
Of course, if you do fcntl-locking _as well_, and the nfs client
guarantees proper ordering of reads & writes around the lock, everything
should be ok.
-- Jamie
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