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.Dd August 13, 1998 .Dt LOCKSPOOL 1 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm lockspool .Nd lock user's system mailbox .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm lockspool .Op Ar username .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm is useful for a client mail program to attain proper locking. .Nm obtains a
a username.lock for the calling user and retains it until stdin is closed or a signal like .Dv SIGINT , .Dv SIGTERM , or .Dv SIGHUP is received. Additionally, the superuser may specify the name of a user in order to lock a different mailbox.
p If .Nm is able to create the lock file, .Dq 1 is written to stdout, otherwise .Dq 0 is written and an error message is written to stderr. .Nm will try up to 10 times to get the lock (sleeping for a short period in between tries).
p The .Nm utility exits 0 on success, and 1 if an error occurs. .Sh FILES l -tag -width /var/mail/username.lock -compact t Pa /var/mail/username.lock user's mail lock file .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr mail 1 , .Xr mail.local 1 , .Xr sendmail 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm program appeared in .Ox 2.4 .