Allowing only one instance of a script?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-06-23, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> In article <11bljh588m0r89c at corp.supernews.com>,
> Grant Edwards  <grante at visi.com> wrote:
>>
>>Both open() and link() are atomic operations, so there's no
>>race condition.
>
> ...unless you're running under NFS.

I think read somewhere than NFS 3 handles the open with
CREAT+EXCL in an atomic manner (older versions didn't). I don't
know about link.

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