To support such situations, you can set annex.pidlock to true, and it
will fall back to a single top-level pid file lock.
- (Although, often, you'd really be better off fixing your networked
- filesystem configuration to support POSIX locks..)
+ Although, often, you'd really be better off fixing your networked
+ filesystem configuration to support POSIX locks.. And, some networked
+ filesystems are so inconsistent that one node can't reliably tell when
+ the other node is holding a pid lock. Caveat emptor.
* `annex.pidlocktimeout`