1 .TH WITH-LOCK-EX "1" "July 2003" "Debian" "Chiark-utils-bin"
3 with-lock-ex \- file locker
6 .RB [\| \-w \||\| \-q \||\| \-f \|]
11 with-lock-ex will open and lock the lockfile for writing and then feed
12 the remainder of its arguments to
14 when that process terminates the fd will be closed and the file
15 unlocked automatically by the kernel.
22 fail if the lock cannot be acquired
25 silently do nothing if the lock cannot be acquired
27 This Manual page was written by Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org> but
28 may be used by anyone.
30 with-lock-ex was written by Ian Jackons <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
31 in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999. He has placed it in the public