Tollef Fog Heen <[email protected]> writes: > 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.
Thanks, I'm certainly fine with using flock instead of lockfile-progs. Especially that the former is forbidden by policy. :) Now I only wonder how Justin found out about my bug report... -- Cheers, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
