Re^2: locking over the network

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Re^3: locking over the network (NFSLock) by tye (Sage) on Feb 02, 2011 at 03:26 UTC
The man page is quite clear what it does. Did you read it? You only have to read the first paragraph. - tye	[reply]
Re^4: locking over the network (NFSLock) by rovf (Priest) on Feb 02, 2011 at 10:27 UTC
The man page is quite clear what it does. Did you read it? You only have to read the first paragraph. Yes, I did read it, and it says that this class applies only to locking over NFS (which is not a big surprise, considering the name of the class). That's why I said this class might be nice, but doesn't help me much, because it would require that the file to be locked is accessed via NFS. Or did I misunderstand something in the documentation? -- Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: locking over the network (NFSLock) by tye (Sage) on Feb 02, 2011 at 14:05 UTC
Then I guess you need more practice reading. I don't see the word "only" in the description and what is clearly described in the first paragraph is precisely the approach offered elsewhere in this thread as a generic approach known to work over NFS but not "only NFS": "creating a random local file, hard linking a common file to the local file, and then checking the nlink status". The module Name is even documented as "File::NFSLock - perl module to do NFS (or not) locking" where, just to be clear, "or not" indicates that NFS is not required. - tye	[reply]
Re^6: locking over the network (NFSLock) by rovf (Priest) on Feb 02, 2011 at 14:31 UTC
Re^7: locking over the network (NFSLock) by DrWhy (Chaplain) on May 04, 2011 at 22:07 UTC