https://github.com/cdown/mkdirmutex

A deadlock-resistant mkdir based mutex
https://github.com/cdown/mkdirmutex

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A deadlock-resistant mkdir based mutex

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cdown/mkdirmutex
• Owner: cdown
• Created: 2021-10-14T20:13:52.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-10-27T11:41:40.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-26T18:23:49.448Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Shell
• Size: 1000 Bytes
• Stars: 7
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README

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Since it came up a couple of times now, here's a good example of how to safely

implement a mkdir-based mutex lock in userspace without dependencies.

This is generally a lot less of a footgun than using flock(1), which has

significant problems with (for example) FD inheritance and unintuitive

deadlocks.