> GoldEd/2's scan of the bases will not harm the bases if another
 > process is working with them.  Max and Squish use semaphores
 > (BBSSEM's environment variable, otherwise /sem/squish/default) to
 > lock the bases.  The only "harm" comes from writing in GoldEd/2

No, squish only uses semaphores to check if another squish is running.
Locking of the msg files is done with normal file locking. And works over
the network to. Even GoldEd/2 uses that locking.
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