Michael Graff (explorer@flame.org) wrote:

 I thought about that.  The "best" way is perhaps to do an flock(), then
: a dot lock.  That way, programs which use flock() will be blocked right
: away, and those which rely on the dot lock will also win.  If you don't
: get the dot lock, however, what do you do?  Release the flock() and back
: out?

I'm not formally trained in CS, but yes, this is what I've read about
avoiding deadlocks.

	-is