Script/Process Queuing

[David Cary Hart]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:23:22 -0700 (PDT), Tom Spec
<samag70-ignore at yahoo.ca> opined:
> Something like this?
> 
> while lock != ok
> do
> if /tmp/script.lock exists
>  sleep 60
> else
>  lock=ok
> done
> 
> create /tmp/script.lock
> execute script
> remove /tmp/script.lock
> 
I tried something like that with an environment variable. That works
with two requests but the problem occurs with 20 to 30
virtually simultaneous requests. So far the only thing that works is
to use a similar approach with #at but that seems terribly
inelegant.

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