On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Francis Cianfrocca wrote: > Don't worry about leaving lock files around. If you really don't like it, > put it in /tmp or /dev/shm. Sigh! Just seems so...messy. Sigh! I even thought of using whatever "fuser -v" uses, but strace tells me it scans /proc! And that's gives me worse aesthetic collywobbles. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter / tait.co.nz New Zealand Carter's Clarification of Murphy's Law. "Things only ever go right so that they may go more spectacularly wrong later." From this principle, all of life and physics may be deduced.