From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Bernhard Bitsch <bbitsch@ipfire.org>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: Stale pakfire lock-file causing pakfire to no longer work
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 13:48:42 +0200
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Hi all,

as an 'old real time programmer' this reminds me deeply at 
Dijkstra/Hoare's "Dining philosophers problem".

The check for presence of the lockfile and the generation of it are not 
'atomic'. Means two programs can run in parallel.

I'll investigate this further. But the deletion of the lock should 
happen anyways, as far I've seen till now.

Regards,
Bernhard

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