in reply to File locking; downgrade an exclusive to a shared lock

Hi,

Delete all the copies of vim?

J.C.

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Re^2: File locking; downgrade an exclusive to a shared lock
by The_Dj (Scribe) on Jul 12, 2013 at 05:47 UTC
    +1 to lateral thinking.
    -5 to server usability.
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      Another lateral approach, then. Add into your script a write of the PID to a second, non-locked file after it has successfully gained the exclusive lock. Then your kill-script just needs to read the second, unlocked file and compare its timestamp to that of the locked file (to make sure the second file is not stale).

      Caveat: I'm not a Windows user, so this may be no use at all on that platform.

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