On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 03:47:14PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't know if the setlock thing is completely immune to racing.
setlock (and possibly other utilities like it) basically obtains an exclusive lock on a user-specified file before running the indicated program. If flock()/lockf() on your chosen OS is susceptible to race conditions, it's seriously broken (and you'd have to worry about far more serious problems than concurrent rsyncs). > It might be better. It's certainly more reliable than grep'ing ps output. 8-) - Adrian -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
