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[Kenneth Brody]

Robert Haussmann wrote:
[...Using file I/O to read the lockfile ...]
> I've always wondered about such a technique.  If you do this,
> don't you run the risk of having fP blow up because the
> LOCKFILE itself is locked? (more likely to happen if the
> files are used by a large number of processes).

The lockfile is only locked while being updated, which only takes
a fraction of a second.  If it happened to be locked when you tried
to read it, one of two things would happen (depending on platform).
Either it would wait that fraction of a second and then read it, or
it would return an error that the file was locked.

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