From 6387e442e8c1c9d06c80363ac172b1daf0afb430 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 17:39:31 -0400
Subject: add README

---
 README.markdown | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 README.markdown

(limited to 'README.markdown')

diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3bd076c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Lock
+====
+
+This program creates a lock directory to ensure two programs do no simulaneously execute
+
+example:
+
+    calvin@barnabas:~/lock$ lock p
+    calvin@barnabas:~/lock$ lock p && echo 'UNLOCKED' &
+    [2] 22844
+    calvin@barnabas:~/lock$ rmdir p
+    * two seconds later *
+    calvin@barnabas:~/lock$ 
+    UNLOCKED
+    [2]-  Done                    lock p && echo -e '\nUNLOCKED\n'
+    calvin@barnabas:~/lock$ 
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