I have scheduled a cron job to run every minute but sometimes the script takes more than a minute to finish and I don't want the jobs to start "stacking up" over each other. I guess this is a concurrency problem - i.e. the script execution needs to be mutually exclusive. To solve the problem I made the script look for the existence of a particular file ("lockfile.txt") and exit if it exists or tou
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