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Fri Oct  2 12:06:47 1981
Lockfiles
	Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but what's wrong with
the following locking mechanism?  It's the one I've always used and
never (to my knowledge) had any races:
		while((lfd = creat(LOCKFILE, 0)) 
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