newslock(1)

newslock1

Create atomic hard links

Usage

newslock

tempname lockname create a hard link from tempname to lockname if lockname did not exist before. Returns 0 if suceeds, 1 otherwise.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1–13

Authors

Geoffrey Collyer, Henry Spencer

From mgetty-fax 1.2.1-2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.