Joel Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I can't see how that works easily. I'm not worried about a
> tarball (eventually Red Hat and SuSE and Debian would have it). I'm
> thinking about this shell:
>
> exec 7</dlm/domainxxxx/lock1
> do stuff
> exec 7</dev/null
>
> If someone kills the shell while stuff is doing, the lock is unlocked
> because fd 7 is closed. However, if you have an application to do the
> locking:
>
> takelock domainxxx lock1
> do sutff
> droplock domainxxx lock1
>
> When someone kills the shell, the lock is leaked, becuase droplock isn't
> called. And SEGV/QUIT/-9 (especially -9, folks love it too much) are
> handled by the first example but not by the second.
take-and-drop-lock -d domainxxx -l lock1 -e "do stuff"
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