Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 17:44:51 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Jos Backus <Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, Jos Backus <jbackus@plex.nl>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftpd feature: lock file being stored Message-ID: <38253C03.A7036A91@newsguy.com> References: <19991105111518.A2328@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com> <7173.941797101@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <19991105113929.B2328@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com>
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Jos Backus wrote: > > Scanning the directory for new files, as the aforementioned script does. If > you have more than one script doing this at the same time, both may conclude > that a given file is ``available'' and try to act upon it. Inevitably, one of > those scripts will fail. Hence my solution. But maybe I don't quite understand > the problem :-) > > (Yes, I know you will say, "Don't run more than one script at a time then.". > But whether this is possible really depends on the application and moreover > seems to be an unecessary restriction.) Actually, use fstat to check against ftpd, and lockf between the scripts. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org What y'all wanna do? Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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