NAME
lockerd - Distributed lock handler for Perl IPC::Locker
SYNOPSIS
lockerd [ --help ] [ --port=port ] [ --host=host ] [ --path=fifo_path ] [ --version ]
DESCRIPTION
Lockerd will start a daemon to watch for and service connects by the Perl IPC::Locker package.
ARGUMENTS
- --help
-
Displays this message and program version and exits.
- --nofork
-
Keep the daemon in the foreground for debugging.
- --host
-
Specifies the IP address to be used for the daemon. Defaults to localhost.
- --port
-
Specifies the port number to be used for the daemon.
- --path
-
Specifies that UNIX FIFO will be used for communications with clients and the path to the FIFO.
- --version
-
Displays program version and exits.
PERFORMANCE
Lockerd has tested to perform well handling above 3,000 lock or unlock requests per second on a 2GHz AMD Operton server.
DISTRIBUTION
The latest version is available from CPAN and from http://www.veripool.org/.
Copyright 1999-2013 by Wilson Snyder. This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 3 or the Perl Artistic License Version 2.0.
AUTHORS
Wilson Snyder <wsnyder@wsnyder.org>