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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/attachments/20110712/6d90e3ae/attachment-0006.html>