# The sysutils/lockfile port

## lockfile-3.24 – semaphore-file tool for shell scripting

## Description

    This package contains the lockfile(1) program, originally distributed
    as part of procmail.

    lockfile can be used to create one or more semaphore files. If lockfile
    can't create all the specified files (in the specified order), it waits
    sleeptime (defaults to 8) seconds and retries the last file that didn't
    succeed. You can specify the number of retries to do until failure is
    returned. If the number of retries is -1 (default, i.e., -r-1) lockfile
    will retry forever.

WWW: https://github.com/BuGlessRB/procmail

Categories:
  sysutils

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