Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > This code still has a race if one of the followers gets signaled > after its trap has been set. Then it will erase elc-lock, and > another follower can create it.
When one of the processes gets a signal, usually all of them get the signal. So this shouldn't be a big problem. If you removed the 'trap' line, then after the user interrupts the "make" process with Ctrl-C, the lock file will stay there, and the next invocation of "make" will wait for the "other" processes that don't exist any more. Bruno
