programming

Has anyone here used FLOCK(2)?

https://linux.die.net/man/2/flock

Only ever read about it in TLPI. Seemed like if you found yourself using this you might be _too_ close to the metal, but some like to live dangerously.

Did you end up using it?

I ended up using pg advisory locks since i already had a pg.

There have been times in bash scripting that I needed to ensure only 1 process is running at a time. I have also used FIFOs for this sort of thing.

Building @warpcast and @farcaster. Previously Coinbase, Brigade, Causes.

I ended up using pg advisory locks since i already had a pg.

There have been times in bash scripting that I needed to ensure only 1 process is running at a time. I have also used FIFOs for this sort of thing.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/functions-admin.html#FUNCTIONS-ADVISORY-LOCKS

Only ever read about it in TLPI. Seemed like if you found yourself using this you might be _too_ close to the metal, but some like to live dangerously.

Did you end up using it?

https://man7.org/tlpi/