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Unix dot-locking examples

4 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2010-12-13 · latest 2023-08-14

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  1. Indeed: https://github.com/jaysoffian/dotlock/ I think I first learned that trick from procmail and then confirmed it with the NFS spec? Been a long time...
    comment by js2 · 2023-08-14 · in Things Unix can do atomically (2010)
  2. …try again. I seem to recall checking the link count on the temporary file is all that was needed: https://github.com/jaysoffian/dotlock (That code is from 2001 or so.)
    comment by js2 · 2022-06-21 · in NFS: The Early Years
  3. https://github.com/jaysoffian/dotlock
    comment by js2 · 2015-01-12 · in Lock File Practices
  4. This excellent writeup inspired me to publish some old dotlocking code I had lying about - https://github.com/jaysoffian/dotlock
    comment by js2 · 2010-12-13 · in Everything you never wanted to know about file locking