Bug#511300: Acknowledgement (Support locking so that concurrent instances of the same backup action not possible)

2009-01-19 Thread intrigeri
Hi Tuomas, hi BTS! Tuomas Jormola wrote (13 Jan 2009 12:56:44 GMT) : Seems fine to me at the first glance, but... have you checked how other programs do so? I bet there is a robust, long-time used piece of code somewhere that does exactly this and takes care of the usual weird corner case.

Bug#511300: Acknowledgement (Support locking so that concurrent instances of the same backup action not possible)

2009-01-13 Thread Tuomas Jormola
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:10:46PM +0100, intrigeri wrote: Tuomas Jormola wrote (12 Jan 2009 15:01:03 GMT) : On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:17:59PM +0100, intrigeri wrote: As pointed out in your comments, the checkpidalive portability needs to be fixed; do you intend to do so at some point?

Bug#511300: Acknowledgement (Support locking so that concurrent instances of the same backup action not possible)

2009-01-12 Thread intrigeri
Hello, Tuomas Jormola wrote (09 Jan 2009 11:33:15 GMT) : Naive sample implementation of this feature, not tested at all. Maybe better use as inspiration rather than concrete implementation... This seems like a good start to implement an important missing feature. Great :) As pointed out in

Bug#511300: Acknowledgement (Support locking so that concurrent instances of the same backup action not possible)

2009-01-12 Thread Tuomas Jormola
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:17:59PM +0100, intrigeri wrote: Hello, Tuomas Jormola wrote (09 Jan 2009 11:33:15 GMT) : Naive sample implementation of this feature, not tested at all. Maybe better use as inspiration rather than concrete implementation... This seems like a good start to

Bug#511300: Acknowledgement (Support locking so that concurrent instances of the same backup action not possible)

2009-01-12 Thread intrigeri
Tuomas Jormola wrote (12 Jan 2009 15:01:03 GMT) : On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:17:59PM +0100, intrigeri wrote: As pointed out in your comments, the checkpidalive portability needs to be fixed; do you intend to do so at some point? Quick check on Linux/AIX/Solaris/Mac OS X systems would suggest

Bug#511300: Acknowledgement (Support locking so that concurrent instances of the same backup action not possible)

2009-01-09 Thread Tuomas Jormola
Naive sample implementation of this feature, not tested at all. Maybe better use as inspiration rather than concrete implementation... -- Tuomas Jormola t...@solitudo.net diff -ur backupninja-0.9.5.orig/etc/backupninja.conf.in backupninja-0.9.5/etc/backupninja.conf.in ---