In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Williams wrote: > On 29/09/06, Matthew Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have found that in real usage of other programs within the company that >> use lockfiles, it sometimes causes a bit of troubleshooting time when it >> stops working due to a stale lockfile.. This especially happens when the >> program is killed, the lockfile remains and causes minor annoyance (to >> somebody who knows that is, more annoyance to somebody who doesn't). > > Then they were checking for the wrong thing :) Chcking for a lock > file's existance is prone to the above problem.
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