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From: harrison@necssd.NEC.COM (Mark Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Creating a lock file in sh?
Message-ID: <784@necssd.NEC.COM>
Date: 19 Apr 91 14:50:03 GMT
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In article <1991Apr17.201931.14536@odin.corp.sgi.com>,
rhartman@thestepchild.sgi.com (Robert Hartman) writes:

> Aside from the fact that it isn't guaranteed over NFS, you can get some
> measure of protection this way:

	[example using lockfile]

Could you elaborate on why it's not guaranteed over NFS?

Mark. ("Yikes!")
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