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Re: wanted: analog to procmail's lockfile




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Subject: Re: wanted: analog to procmail's lockfile

From: Simon Truss <simon%bigblue.demon.co.uk@localhost>

Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:12:00 +0000


Aleksey Cheusov wrote:

In article <s93tzp2lqvf.fsf%chen.chizhovka.net@localhost>,
Aleksey Cheusov  <netbsd-help%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

 >>Does anybody know more or less well known replacement for
 >>"lockfile" utility shipped with procmail?
 >>
 >>I'd prefer standalone utility that is distributed without so heavy baggage.


shlock?


Unfortunately shlock cannot WAIT until lockfile is freed :-(

   while ! shlock ...; do
      sleep xxx;
   done

looks ugly



what about setlock in daemontools.

Simon



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