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Re: History file locking?

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From: Anthony Heading <aheading@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: History file locking?
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 18:08:21 +0100 (BST)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <960410092605.ZM16040@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Barton E. Schaefer" at Apr 10, 96 09:26:05 am

> It's actually possible to do .lock locking *more* reliably than lockf
> if you follow some special rules. [...]
> 
> However, Zefram is right that it's probably more effort than it's worth.

More than it's worth for the history.  But wouldn't it make a rather nice
general-purpose builtin?  `lockfile' from procmail is a pretty useful
utility - to have equivalent functionality in zsh would be great.

Anthony

References:
- Re: History file locking?
  - From: Barton E. Schaefer

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