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From: Georg Nikodym <georgn@Canada.Sun.COM>
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Subject: Re: filelock.c
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It is for the reasons Barry enumerates that I posted a patches that
gave the builder the configure time option to disable file locking
altogether.

Nobody cared at the time.  Perhaps, though, there's an archive?

