Creating a lock file in sh?
Mark Harrison
harrison at necssd.NEC.COM
Sat Apr 20 00:50:03 AEST 1991
In article <1991Apr17.201931.14536 at odin.corp.sgi.com>,
rhartman at thestepchild.sgi.com (Robert Hartman) writes:
> Aside from the fact that it isn't guaranteed over NFS, you can get some
> measure of protection this way:
[example using lockfile]
Could you elaborate on why it's not guaranteed over NFS?
Mark. ("Yikes!")
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