For the record: There's https://github.com/poeml/withlock which can
simply be put "between" cron and the applications in question…
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Fixing this in cron would not ensure mutual exclusion in the cases
where these scripts are called by other means, eg manual calls.
I think we shouldn't consider external calls as this is out of cron's
scope (if not builtin directly in the application flock's doesn't
guarantee mutual exclusion
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