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author | tobez <tobez@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-09-11 15:16:23 +0000 |
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committer | tobez <tobez@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-09-11 15:16:23 +0000 |
commit | 0a8b85c4c9278cd1a9809c98a0e5930f64f53076 (patch) | |
tree | 592c683fce6753738108efd667d6c3f59ff2d243 /devel/p5-File-NFSLock/pkg-descr | |
parent | a2d7f69b781863111488580821338243435ae1fc (diff) | |
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Add p5-File-NFSLock, a perl module to do NFS (or not) locking.
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diff --git a/devel/p5-File-NFSLock/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-File-NFSLock/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e7393d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/p5-File-NFSLock/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +File::NFSLock - perl module to do NFS (or not) locking. + +The module is based of concept of hard linking of files being atomic +across NFS. This concept was mentioned in Mail::Box::Locker (which was +originally presented in Mail::Folder::Maildir). Some routine flow is +taken from there -- particularly the idea of creating a random local +file, hard linking a common file to the local file, and then checking +the nlink status. Some ideologies were not complete (uncache mechanism, +shared locking) and some coding was even incorrect (wrong stat index). +File::NFSLock was written to be light, generic, and fast. + +Authors: Paul T Seamons (paul@seamons.com), Rob B Brown (bbb@cpan.org) +WWW: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=File-NFSLock + +-Anton +<tobez@FreeBSD.org> |