Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 04:27:24 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: asami@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports lockfile? Message-ID: <20001220042724.R19572@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <xzpy9xbgtza.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:25:29PM %2B0100 References: <20001219113535.Q19572@fw.wintelcom.net> <20001220094157.C644@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20001219235750.I19572@fw.wintelcom.net> <xzpy9xbgtza.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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* Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> [001220 04:25] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> writes: > > Well here's the very tricky part that I really haven't worked out > > how to do this, the lockf program runs a program with the lock, so > > I need to make the lockf program run make again. > > Use a directory as lock file: mkdir will fail if the directory exists, > allowing you to either abort or sleep and loop back. It's a good idea, but ensuring cleanup is a real problem when you do that. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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