my own setlock source code

I’ve added the “force” options, as I needed it for the project I’m working on.

#!/bin/bash

usage()
{
  echo "usage: setlock [ -fFnN ] [ -xX ] [ -v ] [ -V ] file program [ arg ... ]"
  echo " Options"
  echo "    -f: No delay. If fn is locked by another process, try to force ownership by trying to kill the process that has the lock."
  echo "    -F: No delay. If fn is locked by another process, bruteforce ownership by killing the process that has the lock (-9)."
  echo "    -n: No delay. If fn is locked by another process, setlock gives up."
  echo "    -N: (Default.) Delay. If fn is locked by another process, setlock waits until it can obtain a new lock."
  echo "    -x: If fn cannot be created or locked, setlock exits zero."
  echo "    -X: (Default.) If fn cannot be created or locked, setlock prints an error message and exits nonzero."
  echo "    -v: Verbose messaging"
  echo "    -V: Show the version"
  exit 1
}
version()
{
  echo "Version 0.1"
  usage
}
verbose()
{
  if [ "$VERBOSE" = "y" ] ; then 
    echo "$1"
  fi
}
cleanup()
{
  if [ "$SETLOCK" = "y" ] ; then
    killlock
    clear_lock 
  fi 
}
trap "cleanup"
set_lock()
{
  verbose "set lock"
  echo $$ >> $LOCK
  SETLOCK=y
}
clear_lock()
{
  verbose "Clear lock"
  rm $LOCK >/dev/null 2>&1 
}
killlock()
{
  pids=`cat $LOCK 2>/dev/null` 
  for pid in $pids 
  do
    verbose "Kill $1 on process $pid" 
    kill $1 $pid >/dev/null 2>&1
  done
}
run_command()
{ 
  set_lock
  verbose "Running command"
  eval bash -c "$CMD" 
  RET=$?
  verbose "Command done - exit value = $RET"
  clear_lock
  RET=$? 
  exit $RET
}
no_wait()
{
  verbose "No waiting" 
  exit $EXITCODE
}
wait_nice()
{
  verbose "Waiting nice"
  while [ -f "$LOCK" ] ; do
    sleep 1 
  done
  run_command
}
force_kill()
{
  killlock
  run_command 
} 
force_brute()
{
  killlock -9 
  run_command
}

FORCE=n
DELAY=y
EXITCODE=1
VERBOSE=n
OPTS=0
while getopts "f F n N x X v V" o ; do
  case $o in
    f) FORCE=y DELAY=n;;
    F) FORCE=b DELAY=n;;
    n) DELAY=n;;
    N) DELAY=y;;
    x) EXITCODE=0;;
    X) EXITCODE=1;;
    v) VERBOSE=y;;
    V) version;; 
  esac
  let OPTS=$OPTS+1
done

if [ $# -lt 2 ] ; then
  verbose "Not enough parameters given"
  usage
fi

APTS=0
while [ $APTS -lt $OPTS ]  ; do
  shift 
  let APTS=$APTS+1
done

LOCK=$1
shift
CMD=$*

if [ -z "$LOCK" ] ; then
  verbose "No lockfile given"
  usage
fi

if [ -z "$CMD" ] ; then
  verbose "No command given"
  usage
fi

if [ -f "$LOCK" ] ; then
  if [ "$DELAY" = "y" ] ; then
    wait_nice
  else
    case "$FORCE" in
      "n") no_wait;;
      "y") force_kill;;
      "b") force_brute;;
      *) exit 99;;
    esac
  fi 
else
  run_command
fi

Feel free to use it, yet I’m publishing it here under the GPL license