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>>>>> "GN" == Georg Nikodym <georgn@Canada.Sun.COM> writes:

    GN> It is for the reasons Barry enumerates that I posted a patches
    GN> that gave the builder the configure time option to disable
    GN> file locking altogether.

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

I'm just as happy to set lock-directory to something else, too!

