On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 11:24:09AM -0500, Calvin Morrison wrote: > 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.
Care to clarify the limitations of flock?
