On 8 April 2014 12:19, Amadeus Folego <amadeusfol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Calvin, > > Thanks for sharing it, it's really neat! > > I have the same problem with some cron jobs, but I use lockrun[1]. > > It's source code is quite simple[2] too.
That code is simple enough, but it did leave a poor taste in my mouth. A clean rewrite would be easy. > > The reason why I would still stick with lockrun is that > in the context of cron jobs, it is better that the task does not > runs than piling up. > > What do you think about it? > > [1]: http://www.unixwiz.net/tools/lockrun.html > [2]: http://www.unixwiz.net/tools/lockrun.c > Yes, I've used lockrun quite a bit, but since it wasn't available on all platforms I am targeting, and flock also wasn't (I would prefer flock mostly over the others), I wanted to have something that I can use elsewhere. As to the piling, versus just exiting, my application needs to execute both eventually, so I had it do that. It would probably be trivial to do both. This brings up another thought. Most utilities in the standard distribution of binaries, and even more in moreutils often are hard coded C, where a few liner shell script would work. Any thoughts on one versus the other? Calvin
