PORTLOCK(1)

💅 PORTLOCK(1) 💅

from the General Commands Manual, bestie — main character energy for your build locks. 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

portlock — lock port for concurrent builds

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

portlock [-g group] [-m mode] lockname [comment ...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so portlock creates a lock named lockname using open(2). That’s the vibe. If the lock is already held, it will display one single wait message on stderr, sleep and retry until satisfaction — like, it literally keeps trying, no cap. 😭

If necessary, it creates the lock directory, using -m mode as a mode argument or the default if that option is not specified, and -g group as the group owner if that option is specified. Periodt. 💅

• -g group — if necessary, this uses group as the group owner when the lock directory is created, but only if this option is specified, bestie.
• -m mode — if necessary, this uses mode as the mode argument when the lock directory is created; if this option isn’t specified, the default is used.

This implements a locking mechanism for ports building, see ‘LOCK INFRASTRUCTURE’ in ports(7) for details. See also dpb(1) for a complementary lock infrastructure when using dpb. 🦋

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💖 Debian, July 9, 2018 — that’s the source/date energy for this page, and portlock(1) is out. Bye bestie! 🎀