1.\" 2.\" Copyright (C) 1998 John D. Polstra. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY JOHN D. POLSTRA AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL JOHN D. POLSTRA OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/lockf/lockf.1,v 1.7.2.4 2002/06/21 15:27:51 charnier Exp $ 26.\" 27.Dd July 7, 1998 28.Dt LOCKF 1 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm lockf 32.Nd execute a command while holding a file lock 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.Nm 35.Op Fl ks 36.Op Fl t Ar seconds 37.Ar file 38.Ar command 39.Op Ar arguments 40.Sh DESCRIPTION 41The 42.Nm 43utility acquires an exclusive lock on a 44.Ar file , 45creating it if necessary. 46While holding the lock, it executes a 47.Ar command 48with optional 49.Ar arguments . 50After the 51.Ar command 52completes, 53.Nm 54releases the lock, and removes the 55.Ar file 56unless the 57.Fl k 58option is specified. 59.Bx Ns -style 60locking is used, as described in 61.Xr flock 2 ; 62the mere existence of the 63.Ar file 64is not considered to constitute a lock. 65.Pp 66The following options are supported: 67.Bl -tag -width Fl 68.It Fl k 69Causes the lock file to be kept (not removed) after the command 70completes. 71.It Fl s 72Causes 73.Nm 74to operate silently. 75Failure to acquire the lock is indicated only in the exit status. 76.It Fl t Ar seconds 77Specifies a timeout for waiting for the lock. By default, 78.Nm 79waits indefinitely to acquire the lock. 80If a timeout is specified with this option, 81.Nm 82will wait at most the given number of 83.Ar seconds 84before giving up. A timeout of 0 may be given, in which case 85.Nm 86will fail unless it can acquire the lock immediately. 87.El 88.Pp 89In no event will 90.Nm 91break a lock that is held by another process. 92.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 93If 94.Nm 95successfully acquires the lock, it returns the exit status produced by 96.Ar command . 97Otherwise, it returns one of the exit codes defined in 98.Xr sysexits 3 , 99as follows: 100.Bl -tag -width F_CANTCREATX 101.It Dv EX_TEMPFAIL 102The specified lock file was already locked by another process. 103.It Dv EX_CANTCREAT 104The 105.Nm 106utility 107was unable to create the lock file, e.g., because of insufficient access 108privileges. 109.It Dv EX_USAGE 110There was an error on the 111.Nm 112command line. 113.It Dv EX_OSERR 114A system call (e.g., fork) failed unexpectedly. 115.El 116.Sh SEE ALSO 117.Xr flock 2 , 118.Xr sysexits 3 119.Sh HISTORY 120A 121.Nm 122utility first appeared in 123.Fx 2.2 . 124.Sh AUTHORS 125.An John Polstra Aq jdp@polstra.com . 126