[TriLUG] creating a lock file

[Neil Roeth]

On Jul  9, Joseph Tate (jtate at dragonstrider.com) wrote:
 > I don't think there's a special "lock file create, check, remove" command
 > series.

On my Debian system:

bash-2.05b$ apt-cache search liblockfile
liblockfile-dev - Development library for liblockfile.
liblockfile-simple-perl - Simple advisory file locking
liblockfile1 - NFS-safe locking library, includes dotlockfile program
lockfile-progs - Programs for locking and unlocking files and mailboxes.

The last is a package of command line scripts.  Also, lockfile(1) is part of
the procmail package.

-- 
Neil Roeth