One way is to use another tool. If you look at it just right, lpr is a general purpose job scheduler. It checks a lock resource, and allows only one job to acquire the lock, etc.
The best cookbook I can find to this idea is: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Fax-Server.html Your main problem then becomes how to efficiently detect that the spooled job is finished. jim penny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/26/2006 09:14:11 AM: > Hi > > I need to produce PDFs with reportlab. > > reportlab is not threadsafe. > (http://two.pairlist.net/pipermail/reportlab-users/2006-June/005037.html) > > I think I need a way to queue or generate a "lockfile" on requests for > PDFs so that only one-at-a-time is generated. > > I'm hoping that there is a utility for this already, but search in the > source for queue or serialize or lock gets me a lot of stuff that does > not seem to relate to what I want. > > This looks like it would be a relatively simple utility. Has this been > done yet? Any hints? > > -Jim Washington > _______________________________________________ > Zope3-users mailing list > Zope3-users@zope.org > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users