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From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [util-linux] flock utility program?
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 12:20:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041108122057.GA7510@wonderland.linux.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411090322.iA93MtV11836@freya.yggdrasil.com>

On Nov 09, "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> wrote:

> 	So, if there is not standard utility for shell scripts to
> do flock, here is a simple utility that allows one to do
> "flock [--shared | --non-blocking] cmd arg arg...".  I would like to get
> it into util-linux.  I would be happy to write a manual page
> for it. 
Maybe a timeout would be useful. I suggest you look at the interface of
the lockfile program from the debian liblockfile package:
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libl/liblockfile/

-- 
ciao, |
Marco | [9058 trVqgkARltkxo]


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-08 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-08 12:11 [util-linux] flock utility program? Adam J. Richter
2004-11-08 12:20 ` Marco d'Itri [this message]
2004-11-08 14:36 ` Adam J. Richter
2004-11-08 14:48 ` Adam J. Richter
2004-11-15 17:21 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-11-16  3:32 ` Adam J. Richter
2004-11-16  7:34 ` Adam J. Richter
2004-11-16  7:38 ` Adam J. Richter
2004-11-16 15:24 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-11-16 15:32 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-11-16 15:33 ` Andries Brouwer

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