From: Radu Spineanu <radus@...>
Date: 2006-08-30T09:07:06+09:00
Subject: Re: process based locks for files

Hi ara,

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> plus, it fails horriblly on nfs.  this does all that and much, much more -
> including preventing stale lock starvation
> 
>   http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/lockfile/lockfile-1.4.0/README
>   http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/lockfile/lockfile-1.4.0/
>   http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1024&release_id=3473
> 
> gen install lockfile
> 

I'm looking into this, it seems to be what I am looking for.

Thanks,
Radu Spineanu