Creating a lock file in sh?

[Mark Harrison]

In article <1991Apr17.201931.14536 at odin.corp.sgi.com>,
rhartman at thestepchild.sgi.com (Robert Hartman) writes:

> Aside from the fact that it isn't guaranteed over NFS, you can get some
> measure of protection this way:

	[example using lockfile]

Could you elaborate on why it's not guaranteed over NFS?

Mark. ("Yikes!")
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