Re: waiting for new files in a directory

[Mark Murray]

> > > unlock the file
> > > 
> > > The cleaner you mentioned: run it every 15 minutes, compare the 
> > > date/time on the lockfile, if more than 15 minutes old, grab the PID,  
> > > and kill the job, remove the lock.
> > 
> > Correct.

Actually, you can make it a lot better:

If the lockfile exists, then kill -0 the PID to see if it is still live.
If not, blow away the lockfile. If still alive and older than N minutes,
blow away the PID and break the lock.

M
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Mark Murray
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