The Debian Package shlock
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This is a standalone program and a Perl module to safely do pidfile-type
locking. For instance, you might want to make sure that only one process
updates a file at a time. Other forms of locking are nonportable and not
easily useable from scripts.

It also contains a program to safely regenerate files which might
change; but not "too much".

The standalone shlock program is cloned from INN.
I repackaged it because it is useful.  ;-)

This package is in the admin section because many locking and
file-regenerating programs are administrative. IMHO, anyway.
Think "recreate alias lists", or similar uses.

 -- Matthias Urlichs <smurf@noris.de>  Sat, 19 Oct 2002 18:37:59 +0200
