From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-05-21T14:08:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Ensuring only one instance of a script is running

Daniel Berger wrote:
> DATA.flock(File::LOCK_EX)

Google seems to think it's original, FWIW.

It's kind of unusual for a new ruby idiom to show up. Yippee.

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