[CentOS-mirror] I see all your new mirrors ...

Adam

aring at gmavt.net
Tue Jul 12 17:37:21 UTC 2011


Coreix Mirrors wrote:
>   On 12/07/11 16:29, João Carlos Mendes Luís wrote:
>> Using "touch" and "test -e" as a lock test is not safe. If the shell
>> dies for any reason, the lock file will get stale.
>>
>> If you sync station is linux, a safer option is to use the flock(1)
>> program:
>
> +1
> Or withlock.

Thanks for the heads up and example it does make much more sense.  Here 
is an updated script using flock.

Adam

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