Re^5: self detecting script


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Re^5: self detecting script

by mpeters (Chaplain)

on Sep 15, 2005 at 22:01 UTC ( [id://492446]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Well, if you just rely on the prescence of the lock file then you open yourself up to a race condition. If you flock it, then it's prescence after the fact doesn't really matter does it? The next run of the script will be able to grab the same lock and write it's pid there if it needs to.

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