Optional mandatory locking

Posted Dec 10, 2015 22:42 UTC (Thu) by rotty (guest, #14630)
In reply to: Optional mandatory locking by cuboci
Parent article: Optional mandatory locking

You could also use inotify, for example by incron to generate an event based on a file being open for writing being closed. There might be gotchas, but in principle, it should work (I've used it for auto-converting files uploaded via SMB).