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.


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