From: Christopher Brown <cbrown@...>
Date: 2006-08-14T13:11:32+09:00
Subject: Re: How do you use flock and clean up lock files?

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Sorry to jump in on the thread like this...
John are you using flock because it's the easiest & most available  
way to sync across processes?  If you had easier access to one of the  
other sync primitives, would you be using it (i.e. a mutex)?
I'm just wondering what the dominant pattern is, and if we are using  
it because something better hasn't come along.

Peace,
Chris


On 14 Aug 2006, at 5:57 AM, John Carter wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
>
>> Don't worry about leaving lock files around. If you really don't  
>> like it,
>> put it in /tmp or /dev/shm.
>
> Sigh! Just seems so...messy.
>
> Sigh! I even thought of using whatever "fuser -v" uses, but strace  
> tells
> me it scans /proc! And that's gives me worse aesthetic collywobbles.
>
>
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