Allan McRae on Wed, 2017/06/07 08:06:
> On 07/06/17 07:56, Christian Hesse wrote:
> > Allan McRae on Wed, 2017/06/07 07:37:
> >> On 07/06/17 07:26, Christian Hesse wrote:
> >>> From: Christian Hesse
> >>>
> >>> We used to check for file existens, but that suffers from stale lock
> >>> files
Andrew Gregory on Tue, 2017/06/06 17:56:
> On 06/06/17 at 11:26pm, Christian Hesse wrote:
> > From: Christian Hesse
> >
> > We used to check for file existens, but that suffers from stale lock
> > files caused by unexpected events like crash, shutdown, etc.
> >
> > Instead use flock() to lock t
On 07/06/17 07:56, Christian Hesse wrote:
> Allan McRae on Wed, 2017/06/07 07:37:
>> On 07/06/17 07:26, Christian Hesse wrote:
>>> From: Christian Hesse
>>>
>>> We used to check for file existens, but that suffers from stale lock
>>> files caused by unexpected events like crash, shutdown, etc.
>>
On 06/06/17 at 11:26pm, Christian Hesse wrote:
> From: Christian Hesse
>
> We used to check for file existens, but that suffers from stale lock
> files caused by unexpected events like crash, shutdown, etc.
>
> Instead use flock() to lock the file. It does not matter whether or
> not the file ex
From: Christian Hesse
We used to check for file existens, but that suffers from stale lock
files caused by unexpected events like crash, shutdown, etc.
Instead use flock() to lock the file. It does not matter whether or
not the file exists but whether an exclusive lock can be obtained.
Also rem
