Am Donnerstag, 12. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Ciaran McCreesh:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:42:32 +0200 (CEST)
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:17:06 +0100
> >
> >     It's simple. One NFS file server with portage on it (and
> > distfiles, of course) and cron job doing paludis -s. Multiple Gentoo
> > clients that mount portage.
>
> Mm, then I'm highly unconvinced that Portage-style lock files are a
> good solution -- security and reliability aside, if they were the right
> answer I'd expect to see a lot more traditional Unixy applications
> using similar methods...
>
> So we're back to use cases. Against what precisely are we trying to
> protect?

In case of distfiles: Multiple clients interfering with each other while 
downloading the same source archive.

Bye...

        Dirk
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