Prossibly completely irrelevant, but: I want to say that folk wisdom was to use a directory as lock when attempting to do any sort of locking over NFS as operations on those were a bit more robus...
I am wondering if this is a known problem and if there is a preferred way to work around this.
The workaround (in the scenario where you are unlinking a worked-...
If you unlink after opening but before before processing that would reduce the race window. On a local filesystem that fully removes the file from the directory listing, but as I understand it, ove...