Re: Problem getting flock with timeout to work

2009-03-13 Thread Robert Klemme
Corinna, thanks for your feedback! 2009/3/12 Corinna Vinschen : > On Mar 12 17:44, Robert Klemme wrote: >> The second flock does not start the command as I expect it to be. >> >> I am referring to the man page of flock which says this about option -w: >> >> Fail  (with an exit code of 1) if the l

Re: Problem getting flock with timeout to work

2009-03-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 12 17:44, Robert Klemme wrote: > The second flock does not start the command as I expect it to be. > > I am referring to the man page of flock which says this about option -w: > > Fail (with an exit code of 1) if the lock cannot be acquired within > seconds seconds. Decimal fractional va

Re: Problem getting flock with timeout to work

2009-03-12 Thread Robert Klemme
2009/3/12 Corinna Vinschen : > On second thought, maybe I don't understand what you're expecting. > Running the testcase on a Linux box I get this: > > Linux calimero 2.6.[etc] > -rw-r--r-- 1 corinna vinschen 0 Mar 12 16:48 lock > timeout 10 > started 1 > 3644 Thu Mar 12 16:48:48 CET 2009 > starte

Re: Problem getting flock with timeout to work

2009-03-12 Thread Robert Klemme
Hi again, 2009/3/12 Corinna Vinschen : > On Mar 12 15:40, Robert Klemme wrote: >> Any ideas?  Am I doing something wrong? > > On second thought, maybe I don't understand what you're expecting. > Running the testcase on a Linux box I get this: > > Linux calimero 2.6.[etc] > -rw-r--r-- 1 corinna vi

Re: Problem getting flock with timeout to work

2009-03-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 12 15:40, Robert Klemme wrote: > Hi, > > I searched the archives but could not find any related issue. My > problem is this: I use flock with a timeout but apparently the timeout > does not work, i.e. flock waits longer than specified. Script is > attached. Output is here: > > This is o

Re: Problem getting flock with timeout to work

2009-03-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 12 15:40, Robert Klemme wrote: > Hi, > > I searched the archives but could not find any related issue. My > problem is this: I use flock with a timeout but apparently the timeout > does not work, i.e. flock waits longer than specified. Script is > attached. Output is here: The flock imp

Problem getting flock with timeout to work

2009-03-12 Thread Robert Klemme
Hi, I searched the archives but could not find any related issue. My problem is this: I use flock with a timeout but apparently the timeout does not work, i.e. flock waits longer than specified. Script is attached. Output is here: This is ok, timeout is longer than needed: 15:34:27 tmp$ ./fl-