One with deadlock problems and thinking of using the flock patch should read the stuff in https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=1177
The POSIX alarm fix for the timeout/deadlocks stuff is working just fine here. Unfortunately Philipp Sacha didn't reply yet to give us a second testimony on wether it works or not... Philipp? Did it work? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
