Thread: make calibre-server use a lock file?
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Old 01-18-2017, 09:02 PM   #2
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calibre-server is designed to run multiple instances so you can, for instance, serve different libraries on different ports. So no, the pidfile is not a lock file. It should be trivial to create a wrapper script that creates a lock file for you.
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