Making the shell get in line
I promised that we’re going to build a distributed system in bash, but the mutex that we’ve written in the last part is still pretty far way from that goal. This time, let’s build something more tangible: a queue!
More …Picking the right lock
When you need a piece of glue-code, a wrapper, or you want to execute a few commands in succession, Shell is the natural choice. However, Shell is almost never chosen for the implementation of larger applications. While there are some good reasons for that, there are also a number of good reasons in favor of shell.
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