> Now obviously people these days generally know about that so hopefully don’t use predictable file names but that’s one way. Annoying side effect: now you got

> Now obviously people these days generally know about that so hopefully don’t use predictable file names but that’s one way. Annoying side effect: now you gotta guess which process created the darn lockfile. A more sensible approach is to do sanity checking on the lockfile and its contents (i.e. does the contained PID match one's own binary).