Your absolutely right regarding the need for a lockfile system. Your proposal 
covers all of the standard lockfile basics (At least as I know them). 

I would welcome this addition. 

Best

Marvin

On Friday 21 January 2005 7:51 pm, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> Hello --
>
> This is a simple lockfile proposal for gEDA/gaf.

> Lockfiles will be simple ASCII text.  Inside each lockfile, there will
> be the following (for example):
> ------------------------------------------------------
> #  This is a gEDA/gaf lockfile signalling that this .sch file
> #  has been locked for editing.  If you are sure that nobody
> #  is currently editing this file, you may delete this lockfile
> #  to use gEDA/gaf normally.
> #
> # user who locked this file
> user=sdb
> # process number of program creating this lock
> pid=345345
> # program name which created this lock
> program=gattrib
> # time when lock was created
> timestamp=YYYYMMDD.HHSS
> -------------------------------------------------------

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