Periodic jobs lockf timeout

Borja Marcos borjam at sarenet.es
Tue Oct 24 15:31:53 UTC 2017



> On 24 Oct 2017, at 17:25, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> No, lockf -t 0 means to exit without waiting, with status EX_TEMPFAIL,
> if the lock cannot be acquired immediately.  In light of that, the rest
> of your report/request doesn't make sense.  Jobs won't stack up,
> they'll fail if the prior one is still running.

True! Then I don’t understand what happened. When I saw several processes waiting I assumed
it was an unlimited wait. 

My apologies, I need to look into it more closely.




Borja.



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