Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Perl provides a moderately portable flock(), which we use in fact in > buildfarm to stop it from running more than one at a time on a given repo > copy. > [...]
> Maybe we can borrow some code. Probably not, because it's GPL/Artistic; but we could borrow some ideas instead. The relevant code is here http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/f/pp_sys.c -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org