On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 11:34:24AM -0800, Professional Software Engineering
wrote:
At 13:36 2001-12-21 -0500, Jed Record wrote:
I have some typical recipies that I have been using and I would like to get
some input on efficiency. When is it appropriate to use a lockfile
Basically, whenver you're writing to a file. Or whenever you're invoking a
process which should really only be running one copy at a time (say, some
sloppy DB update util).
Or when invoking a process that will write to a file, unless that process does
it's own file locking, or the file name is guarunteed to be unique.
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