Here another key=$RANDOM
if [ ! -e /tmp/flag ]; then touch /tmp/flag fi #Trying to release the lock while [ mv /tmp/flag /tmp/flag.$key ]; do # here can be a sleep or not... done # do locked stuff here ... #Release the lock mv mv /tmp/flag.$key /tmp/flag I not trying but you can use a environment variable also to obtain the lock implementing a mutex standard algoritm -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
