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in reply to Synchronizing multiple processes retrieving files out of shared directory

Perhaps you could create a temporary lockfile for a file that's currently in use. Other processes would check for (and ignore) any file that has a lockfile present.

Simplistic, but it might work...


*My* tenacity goes to eleven...

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Re^2: Synchronizing multiple processes retrieving files out of shared directory
by MitchInOmaha (Initiate) on Mar 20, 2014 at 12:52 UTC
    The shared disk is Hitachi SAN connected to our Linux boxues with NFS.