lockerd(1) - Linux man page

Name

lockerd - Distributed lock handler for Perl IPC::Locker

Synopsis

lockerd [ --help ] [ --port=port ] [ --path=fifo_path ] [ --version ]

Description

Lockerd will start a daemon to watch for and service connects by the Perl IPC::Locker package.

Arguments

--help

Displays this message and program version and exits.
--nofork: Keep the daemon in the foreground for debugging.
--port: Specifies the port number to be used.
--path: Specifies that UNIX FIFO will be used for communications with clients and the path to the FIFO .
--version: Displays program version and exits.

Performance

Lockerd has tested to perform well handling above 3,000 lock or unlock requests per second on a 2GHz AMD Operton server.

Distribution

The latest version is available from CPAN and from <http://www.veripool.org/>.

Copyright 1999-2009 by Wilson Snyder. This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 3 or the Perl Artistic License Version 2.0.

Authors

Wilson Snyder <wsnyder@wsnyder.org>