--On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 12:35 PM -0600 Devin Reade <gdr@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
> However, although I like the trap mechanism for dealing with cleaning
> up temporary files (especially those files or directories containing
> temporary files created by mktemp(1)), I don't think that it's the
> right tool for lock files. Instead, have a look at flock(1) to avoid
> the race conditions. (See flock(2) about its unsuitability for locks
> on NFS filesystems, though.)
Thanks, that looks much better.
<http://linux.die.net/man/1/flock>
I'm running my script as a normal user so the lock will be in the user's
home directory.
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