There is a task to edit a text file. It is entirely possible that
multiple people are going to be running the ruby script that edits
this file at the same time.
I have looked at Ruby cookbook recipe 6.13 and 20.11. These seem like
what I am wanting.
It seemed like a good idea to float this as a solution before it is
implemented.
How I do it now is using sed:
flock $USERFILE sed -i
“/^$1[[:space:]]+/,+6 { s/^\(.*Default\)/#\1/; s/^#\(.*SRT\)/
\1/; }”
$USERFILE
But I’d like to move this piece of code into the ruby script instead
of launching it with a system command.
What other ways are people doing this sort of thing?
BTW, for those of you that don’t have the cookbook, it basically
redefines open to include a flock call.
Mike B.
On 28.04.2007 02:15, barjunk wrote:
How I do it now is using sed:
BTW, for those of you that don’t have the cookbook, it basically
redefines open to include a flock call.
I consider Ara the definitive source especially when it comes to
flock’ing NFS mounted files, see for example:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/97211
For the low profile solution check out
http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/File.html#M002576
Kind regards
robert
>
> robert
Thanks Robert.
So if I’m editing this file, the basic idea here is to do this:
require 'lockfile'
Lockfile('lock', :retries => 0) do
# edit my file here
end
And that’s it? I’m assuming this will also work on a non-NFS file
system as well. That will do just fine.
Mike B.
On 28.04.2007 20:44, barjunk wrote:
Kind regards
# edit my file here
end
And that’s it? I’m assuming this will also work on a non-NFS file
system as well. That will do just fine.
No, I meant: the basic mechanism uses io.flock, e.g.
11:22:07 [Temp]: cat fl.rb
#!/usr/bin/ruby
id=ARGV.shift || $$
File.open(“x”, “a”) do |io|
puts “#{id}: Start #{Time.now}”
io.flock(File::LOCK_EX)
io.puts “#{id}: #{Time.now.inspect}”
sleep 2
io.puts “#{id}: #{Time.now.inspect}”
puts “#{id}: End #{Time.now}”
end
11:22:12 [Temp]: rm x; for ((i=0;i<10;++i)) do echo $i; ./fl.rb $i &
done; sleep 30
removed `x’
0
[1] 272
1
[2] 2240
2
[3] 3568
3
[4] 2644
4
0: Start Mon Apr 30 11:22:20 +0200 2007
[5] 2688
5
2: Start Mon Apr 30 11:22:20 +0200 2007
1: Start Mon Apr 30 11:22:20 +0200 2007
[6] 2020
6
[7] 3472
7
3: Start Mon Apr 30 11:22:20 +0200 2007
[8] 3332
8
4: Start Mon Apr 30 11:22:20 +0200 2007
[9] 3788
9
[10] 3456
5: Start Mon Apr 30 11:22:20 +0200 2007
6: Start Mon Apr 30 11:22:21 +0200 2007
7: Start Mon Apr 30 11:22:21 +0200 2007
8: Start Mon Apr 30 11:22:21 +0200 2007
9: Start Mon Apr 30 11:22:21 +0200 2007
0: End Mon Apr 30 11:22:22 +0200 2007
2: End Mon Apr 30 11:22:24 +0200 2007
1: End Mon Apr 30 11:22:26 +0200 2007
3: End Mon Apr 30 11:22:28 +0200 2007
4: End Mon Apr 30 11:22:30 +0200 2007
5: End Mon Apr 30 11:22:32 +0200 2007
6: End Mon Apr 30 11:22:34 +0200 2007
7: End Mon Apr 30 11:22:36 +0200 2007
8: End Mon Apr 30 11:22:38 +0200 2007
9: End Mon Apr 30 11:22:40 +0200 2007
[1] Done ./fl.rb $i
[2] Done ./fl.rb $i
[3] Done ./fl.rb $i
[4] Done ./fl.rb $i
[5] Done ./fl.rb $i
[6] Done ./fl.rb $i
[7] Done ./fl.rb $i
[8] Done ./fl.rb $i
[9]- Done ./fl.rb $i
[10]+ Done ./fl.rb $i
11:22:51 [Temp]:
From the timings you can nicely see that exclusive locking works.
robert