Pidlock

This is a ruby library for using pid-file based locking of programs/daemons to prevent multiple parallel running tasks.

Prerequisites

The gem sys/proctable is required.

Usage

require 'sys/proctable'

Pidlock.new('my.pid').lock # tries to create a lock file '/var/run/my.pid';
                           # raises an error if the file is locked or a program exists that 
                           # has the same basename and pid (here: 'my')
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TODO

Lots still. First release.