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?

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/

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