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authorSamuel Fadel <samuel@nihil.ws>2023-06-20 14:18:54 +0200
committerSamuel Fadel <samuel@nihil.ws>2023-06-20 14:18:54 +0200
commit2d8a89d6be28c995478794531748e4c7b0a3b9d4 (patch)
treeeec10b7e639ea1f259a1977dfb595a6d6d9c6aad /bin
parent5ec461479aac4433066292c668d316ad64a0efa9 (diff)
Added naive wrapper to run scripts as singletons.0.6
* bin/singleton: Added.
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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Simple script wrapper to force another script to run as a singleton:
+# prevents multiple instances of it (the same command name; naive)
+# from running.
+
+LOCKFILE="/tmp/singleton-$1"
+LOCKFD=9
+
+lock() { flock -$1 $LOCKFD; }
+stop_lock() { lock u; lock xn && rm -f $LOCKFILE; }
+prep_lock() { eval "exec $LOCKFD>\"$LOCKFILE\""; trap stop_lock EXIT; }
+
+prep_lock
+lock xn || exit 1
+
+exec $@