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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Lock file creates with '?' Post 302777853 by sandy162 on Friday 8th of March 2013 01:22:49 PM
Old 03-08-2013
Lock file creates with '?'

Hi,

I am trying to create a lock file with the following code but for some reason after file is created it has
wrong name "PASP?.lock??"

Please let us know how to get rid of these '??' from file name and from where they are coming?

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
################################################################################
PGM_NAME='PASP'
LOCKFILE=/tmp/${PGM_NAME}.lock
################################################################################

if [ -e $LOCKFILE ] ; then 

    echo "data file does exist"

else 
   touch ${LOCKFILE}
   echo "new data file created"

fi

Thanks
Sandy

Last edited by Corona688; 03-08-2013 at 02:47 PM..
 

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ost::Lockfile(3)					     Library Functions Manual						  ost::Lockfile(3)

NAME
ost::Lockfile - This class is used to create a 'named' lock entity that can be used to control access to a resource between multiple processes. SYNOPSIS
#include <process.h> Public Member Functions Lockfile (const char *name) Create a lock under a known name. Lockfile () Create a new lock object that can be used to make locks. ~Lockfile () Destroy the current lock and release it. bool lock (const char *name) Lock a system-wide name for this process. void unlock (void) Release an acquired lock. bool isLocked (void) Flag if the current process has aqcuired a lock. Detailed Description This class is used to create a 'named' lock entity that can be used to control access to a resource between multiple processes. The posix implimentation uses a pidfile and the win32 version uses a globally visible mutex. Author: David Sugar dyfet@ostel.com System-wide named lock Constructor &; Destructor Documentation ost::Lockfile::Lockfile (const char *name) Create a lock under a known name. Parameters: name of system-wide lock to create. ost::Lockfile::Lockfile () Create a new lock object that can be used to make locks. ost::Lockfile::~Lockfile () [inline] Destroy the current lock and release it. Member Function Documentation bool ost::Lockfile::isLocked (void) Flag if the current process has aqcuired a lock. Returns: true if we have the lock. bool ost::Lockfile::lock (const char *name) Lock a system-wide name for this process. If the lock is successful, return true. If an existing lock was already acquired, release it first. Returns: true if lock successful. Parameters: name system-wide lock to use. void ost::Lockfile::unlock (void) Release an acquired lock. Author Generated automatically by Doxygen for GNU CommonC++ from the source code. GNU CommonC++ Sat Jun 23 2012 ost::Lockfile(3)
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