Re: use lockfiles

Joe Orton <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 23:52:28 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.sitecopy
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 07:21:33AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Ah, I had already had a sitecopy running in the background. No wonder.
> 
> Therefore, sitecopy should employ lockfiles or something, if it
> doesn't already. (I was using 0.11.4).

Recent versions don't either.  The proper fix for this is for sitecopy 
to open a new state file exclusively (O_EXCL) as ~/.sitecopy/local.new 
(or something) then rename over the old file afer an update; concurrent 
runs will be prevented.  This needs a little refactoring.

joe

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