in reply to Re^4: 'flock' with multiple users
in thread 'flock' with multiple users

Depending on the share mounting mechanism of your file system, this introduces another point where things can break. One of the more interesting problems back in the day were stale NFS mounts where file access did not work but also did not fail and timeouts were set up far too long. Make sure to at least test that you're not introducing another failure mode, or if you're introducing that, that it is well enough understood.