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Aucbvax.2739 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Tue Aug 18 12:15:38 1981 Re: using signal(2) with locks >From day@RAND-UNIX Tue Aug 18 12:10:02 1981 Interesting. One idea I had was to write the pid # and its start time into the lock file so you could determine if the process was still alive, but think of the race condition where two processes want delete and relink the dead lock file simultaneously. So this is still not a solid solution.

--dave

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