synchronizing concurrent shell scripts

[Andy Bradford]

Thus said Michael L Torrie on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:51:45 MST:

> My bad.  Google reveals that there's a nice standard unix
> command: /usr/bin/lockfile 

Just to through out another alternative:

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/setlock.html

Andy
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