Re: Feature request: Can bash provide some mechanism for locking/unlocking?

[Jan Schampera]

Clark J. Wang schrieb:

> And if the script crashes the dir will be left unlocked.

System crashes and kill -9 are the problem. The rest is none.

If the area isn't too complex, noclobbered redirection serves well. But
if you have other options, they should be used, of course.

(doing this on a cluster with a shared fs - does like a charm)



J.