ITP: hatools -- The halockrun program provides a simple way to implement locking in shell scripts.

["Igshaan Mesias" <igshaan.mesias@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Igshaan Mesias <igshaan.mesias@gmail.com>


* Package name    : hatools
  Version         : 2.00
  Upstream Author : Markus Winand <mws@fatalmind.com>
* URL             : http://www.fatalmind.com/software/hatools/
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : The halockrun program provides a simple way to
implement locking in shell scripts.

The hatools provide some programs to improve shell scripting in a High
Availability environment.
The halockrun program provides a simple and reliable way to implement
a locking in shell scripts. A typical usage for
halockrun is to prevent cronjobs to run simultanously. halockrun uses
a lock on a file via fcntl(2) which ensures the
release of the lock even if the process gets killed via SIGKILL. The
hatimerun program provides a time-out mechanism
which can be used from shell scripts.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_ZA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)