]] Justin B Rye
| Ferenc Wagner wrote:
| > I suggest to depend on lockfile-progs and use those tools for reliable
| > locking. /etc/cron.daily/standard provides a rather elaborate example.
|
| As the submitter of cron bug #537073 ("unnecessary dependency on
| lockfile-progs") I'd like to counter-suggest the option of using the
| /usr/bin/flock in utils-linux; after all, /etc/cron.daily/mlocate
| already uses the /usr/bin/ionice command from that package - and it's
| Priority: required, while lockfile-progs is Priority: optional.
Yeah, given that mlocate is Priority: standard, we can't use
lockfile-progs. I'll upload a version using flock, though.
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