Was not aware of flock, thanks!
I agree with you, using more small shell scripts is preferable.
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 12:25:55PM -0400, Calvin Morrison wrote:
> On 8 April 2014 12:19, Amadeus Folego <amadeusfolego_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Calvin,
> >
> > Thanks for sharing it, it's really neat!
> >
> > I have the same problem with some cron jobs, but I use lockrun[1].
> >
> > It's source code is quite simple[2] too.
>
> That code is simple enough, but it did leave a poor taste in my mouth.
> A clean rewrite would be easy.
>
> >
> > The reason why I would still stick with lockrun is that
> > in the context of cron jobs, it is better that the task does not
> > runs than piling up.
> >
> > What do you think about it?
> >
> > [1]: http://www.unixwiz.net/tools/lockrun.html
> > [2]: http://www.unixwiz.net/tools/lockrun.c
> >
>
> Yes, I've used lockrun quite a bit, but since it wasn't available on
> all platforms I am targeting, and flock also wasn't (I would prefer
> flock mostly over the others), I wanted to have something that I can
> use elsewhere.
>
> As to the piling, versus just exiting, my application needs to execute
> both eventually, so I had it do that. It would probably be trivial to
> do both.
>
> This brings up another thought. Most utilities in the standard
> distribution of binaries, and even more in moreutils often are hard
> coded C, where a few liner shell script would work. Any thoughts on
> one versus the other?
>
> Calvin
>
Received on Tue Apr 08 2014 - 18:40:44 CEST