Different instances of pack can change files inside $PACK_DIR. Sometimes, especially when there is a need of updating $PACK_DIR/.cache, they are trying to do same things on the same files.
We can try to synchronise some operations like caching and installing using file-system-based synchonisations. The most portable way that I know is mkdir. The most convenient way is flock, but I think it is available mostly on Linux machines.
Anyway, we need to think of the design of this, I mean how to determine when do we need to synchronise and at what granularity.
Different instances of
packcan change files inside$PACK_DIR. Sometimes, especially when there is a need of updating$PACK_DIR/.cache, they are trying to do same things on the same files.We can try to synchronise some operations like caching and installing using file-system-based synchonisations. The most portable way that I know is
mkdir. The most convenient way isflock, but I think it is available mostly on Linux machines.Anyway, we need to think of the design of this, I mean how to determine when do we need to synchronise and at what granularity.