[Kedpm-users] Locking

[Gyepi S. <gye...@pr...>]

There has been some mention of implementing locking for kedpm in the past.

Cross platform locking is a pain and I am not sure how much use this would
get on Windows. For command line usage on posix platforms, locking can be implemented with a wrapper
program that acquires a lock and runs kedpm -c

On Linux,

    flock -w 1 /tmp/kedpm.lock -c kedpm -c || echo "locked! $(fuser -v /tmp/kedpm.lock)"

Will create a lock and run the program or fail after 1 second and tell you who holds the lock.
There's also the 'lckdo' program and others that do the same thing.

-Gyepi