On 12 January 2016 at 10:27, Dimitris Papastamos <s...@2f30.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 09:35:59AM -0500, Calvin Morrison wrote: >> sorry to revive an old topic - >> >> I'd like to have this in with other utils, because i find it useful in >> my day to day work. I do not care about the licensing, feel free to >> use whatever license is appropriate.MIT/X I think is what is used >> around here. >> >> Would someone be willing to commit this into u/sbase for me? > > There is already flock(1) in sbase if that's what you mean. >
No sorry, flock is a different program that the wraps flock(). Somewhat evil and not going to necessarily work on all use cases. This was discussed length in a previous thread. This program uses directories which are helpfully atomic, to 'lock' a program from running until it's removed. C
