Control: tags -1 + confirmed
Control retitle -1 improve locking mechanism
thanks

the patch/recipe below is still needed.

can pick up post bookworm

On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 09:56:42 +0200 matthijs <matth...@stdin.nl> wrote:

> Turns out the locking is actually ineffective (

> Doing some tests shows that the cause of this problem are these lines [1]:
>
> lockfile-create --retry 1 "$LOCKFILE" > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
> # Locked, error and quit
>
> This only treats an exit code of 1 as an error, while lockfile-create
> actually returns "4" in this case [2]. Changing this to `$? -ne 0`, or
> even more compact:
>
> if ! lockfile-create --retry 1 "$LOCKFILE" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
>
> will fix this problem.

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