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diff --git a/devel/p5-File-NFSLock/DESCR b/devel/p5-File-NFSLock/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..44fb3a1a69f --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/p5-File-NFSLock/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +File::NFSLock - perl module to do NFS (or not) locking + +Program 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. |