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Bug#660216: marked as done (RFP: run-with-lockfile -- Simple binary to run command with lock file tracking)

Your message dated Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:26:14 +0100
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has caused the Debian Bug report #660216,
regarding RFP: run-with-lockfile -- Simple binary to run command with lock file tracking
to be marked as done.

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Package: wnpp
Owner: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : run-with-lockfile
  Version         : n/a, last change in upstream cvs 2006-02-16
  Upstream Author : Chris Lightfoot <chris@ex-parrot.com>
* URL             : https://secure.mysociety.org/cvstrac/dir?d=mysociety/run-with-lockfile
* License         : GPLv2 or later
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Simple binary to run command with lock file tracking

 Useful with cron jobs.  It can use a cron script file as its own lock
 file, avoiding the need to create new files to do locking.

Is there a better alternative available in the Debian archive already?
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen

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[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> I've asked the lockfile-progs package maintainer in bug #741300 if he
> would be willing to include the shell script there instead of creating
> a new package for so little code, but have not received any feedback
> in <URL: http://bugs.debian.org/741300 > yet.

The lockfile-progs package maintainer did not like neither the C nor the
shell implementation, and was not willing to include it in
lockfile-progs.

In the mean time I have discovered two programs already in Debian
capable of doing this exact job, running a command while a lock is held.
The primary alternative is flock from util-linux, and there is also the
lckdo command in the moreutils package (announced to be depricated in
its manual page).  Both can do this task, though the exact locking
mechanism seem to differ.

Because there are good replacements in Debian already, I close this WNPP
request.

<URL: https://packages.qa.debian.org/moreutils >
<URL: https://packages.qa.debian.org/util-linux >

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen

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