On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:52:12 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The program isn't how we'd do it for all sorts of reasons (it's not
> correct, reliable or error-safe). If we were to introduce locking,
> we'd make fetchers output to stdout instead of a file and move the
> file handling into the C++ code.
>
Is there some paper about this? I mean, the reasons why programs
like flock are not correct? Second question is if file locking is an
option, anyway. I mean, it maybe breaks some future plans or such?
My personal reasons why I would like to implement this is
because in this fucking country Internet connection is expensive. I
would like to save some $ if I can. I have 3 machines (more yet to
come) on Gentoo that would download distfiles all at the same time while
I'm online. If I can help by implementing file locking, I would be glad
to do that.
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