Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Perl provides a moderately portable flock(), which we use in fact in
> buildfarm to stop it from running more than one at a time on a given repo
> copy.
>
[...]
> Maybe we can borrow some code.
Probably not, because it's GPL/Artistic; but we could borrow some ideas
instead.
The relevant code is here
http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/f/pp_sys.c
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