Scylla and Charybdis lockrun - Tools

The tools are developed under Linux with ESR's paradigm release early, release often in mind.
So you can consider this beta software, or alpha, or pre-alpha, or even worse ;)

Have a look in the download directory for all downloads.
As always here, all you get is the source. No binaries here.

lockrun 0.3.0-20081017-210529

Exclusively run something by placing a file lock (look into latest version, download latest version 0.3.0-20081017-210529, sig)

Lockrun opens or creates a file, places a lock on the file, and if obtained, runs some other program. If the program terminates, the lock is removed.

If there already is a lock on the file, it waits for the lock to be aquired. With option -n it does not wait for the lock and instead returns false.

With option -u a lockfile can be created which is safely removed after it is no more needed (this option is experimental). To remove a locked file use something like 'lockrun "file" rm -f "file"'.

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License and Disclaimer All you can see here is free software according to the GNU GPL. Copyright (C)2000-2008 by Valentin Hilbig Note that the software comes with absolutely no warranty of any kind. You use the software at your own risk. Valentin Hilbig cannot be hold responsible for any unintended damage, lost data or malfunction of the software you can find here.