> On 19 Apr 2021, at 22:49, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>
> On 19Apr2021 23:13, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
>>> On 2021-04-19 08:54:06 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>>> My personal preference is lock directories. Shell version goes like
>>> this:
>>>
>>>if mkdir /my/lock/directory/name-of-task
>>>
On 19Apr2021 23:13, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
>On 2021-04-19 08:54:06 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>> My personal preference is lock directories. Shell version goes like
>> this:
>>
>> if mkdir /my/lock/directory/name-of-task
>> then
>>.. do task ..
>>rmdir /my/lock/directory
On 2021-04-19 08:54:06 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> My personal preference is lock directories. Shell version goes like
> this:
>
> if mkdir /my/lock/directory/name-of-task
> then
>.. do task ..
>rmdir /my/lock/directory/name-of-task
> else
> echo "lock /my/lo
On 2021-04-19 08:04:10 +1200, dn via Python-list wrote:
> In a similar situation, one of my teams used an (OpSys) environment
> variable (available in both *nux and MS-Win).
> - when the application starts, it checks for the variable
> - if exists, stops running, else may proceed
That doesn't work
> On 18 Apr 2021, at 14:46, Jason Friedman wrote:
>
> I should state at the start that I have a solution to my problem. I am
> writing to see if there is a better solution.
>
> I have a program that runs via crontab every five minutes. It polls a
> Box.com folder for files and, if any are fou
It's now at:
https://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/just-one/
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I use this little program for shell-level locking.
It just checks for a pid file. If the pid file does not exist, or the pid
no longer exists, it'll start the process, and write the new process' pid
to the pid file.
It's at:
https://stromberg.dnsalias.org/svn/just-one/
...and usage looks like:
On 18Apr2021 07:46, Jason Friedman wrote:
>I should state at the start that I have a solution to my problem. I am
>writing to see if there is a better solution.
[...]
>I have written a piece of code to detect if more than 1 instance of my
>program is running, and I put this code into a separate mo
On 19/04/2021 01.46, Jason Friedman wrote:
> I should state at the start that I have a solution to my problem. I am
> writing to see if there is a better solution.
>
> I have a program that runs via crontab every five minutes. It polls a
> Box.com folder for files and, if any are found, it copies
On Sun, Apr 18 2021 at 07:46:53 AM, Jason Friedman wrote:
> I should state at the start that I have a solution to my problem. I am
> writing to see if there is a better solution.
>
> I have a program that runs via crontab every five minutes. It polls a
> Box.com folder for files and, if any are fo
Jason Friedman wrote at 2021-4-18 07:46 -0600:
> ...
>I have a program that runs via crontab every five minutes. It polls a
>Box.com folder for files and, if any are found, it copies them locally and
>performs a computation on them that can exceed five minutes. It pushes the
>results back up to Box
I should state at the start that I have a solution to my problem. I am
writing to see if there is a better solution.
I have a program that runs via crontab every five minutes. It polls a
Box.com folder for files and, if any are found, it copies them locally and
performs a computation on them that
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