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by maest 1467 days ago
BTW, this is true, but that is not locking in the "sync locking" sense.
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IanCal 1467 days ago
It's not the intended purpose but they can be used like this. Lock files can be written, will fail if they already exist - that gets you a distributed equivalent to flock doesn't it?
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