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| -rw-r--r-- | libexec/lockspool/lockspool.1 | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/libexec/lockspool/lockspool.1 b/libexec/lockspool/lockspool.1 index 2f4d6693347..7c6b18cc794 100644 --- a/libexec/lockspool/lockspool.1 +++ b/libexec/lockspool/lockspool.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: lockspool.1,v 1.9 2007/05/31 19:19:40 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: lockspool.1,v 1.10 2008/10/01 20:33:07 millert Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1998 Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com> .\" @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: October 1 2008 $ .Dt LOCKSPOOL 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -49,6 +49,15 @@ is written and an error message is written to stderr. will try up to 10 times to get the lock (sleeping for a short period in between tries). .Pp +Typical usage is for a user mail agent (such as +.Xr mail 1 ) +to open a pipe to +.Nm +when it needs to lock the user's mail spool. +Closing the pipe will cause +.Nm +to release the lock. +.Pp The .Nm utility exits 0 on success, and 1 if an error occurs. |