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Re: Looking for general advice on complex program

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On 15Jul2011 16:03, Billy Mays <81282ed9a88799d21e77957df2d84bd6514d9af6@myhashismyemail.com> wrote:
| I remember reading that file locking doesn't work on network mounted
| drives (specifically nfs mounts), but you might be able to simply
| create a 'lock' (mydoc.xml.lock or the like) file for the XML doc in
| question.  If that file exists you could either hang or silently
| give up.  Not sure if that helps.

There are two approaches to this. Plain old make-a-file won't work - it
is racy (and as mentioned, you can't rely on the various lock
facilities).

You can create a file while your umask is 0777; it will be non-writable
immediately (no chmod required), preventing another attempt to make it.

My personal habit is to make a directory for the lock; mkdir
also can't happen twice to the same name, you don't need to fiddle you
umask (racy and annoying, and problematic if you're using multiple
threads), _and_ you can put meta info inside it, like pid files etc.

Cheers,
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Looking for general advice on complex program Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2011-07-15 12:47 -0700
  Re: Looking for general advice on complex program Billy Mays <81282ed9a88799d21e77957df2d84bd6514d9af6@myhashismyemail.com> - 2011-07-15 16:03 -0400
    Re: Looking for general advice on complex program Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2011-07-16 08:37 +1000
    Re: Looking for general advice on complex program Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-16 10:01 +1000
  Re: Looking for general advice on complex program geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com> - 2011-07-16 14:08 -0400

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