But a lockfile always reminds me of thishttp://npmjs.com/package/proper-lockfile …
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Other than rubygems and package managers you wrote?
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Don't get me wrong, you're hugely influential. But so are maven, pear, cpan, nuget, npm, et al, where *.lock means "fs mutex"
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Ah! Composer uses a .lock file, as well.
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Also pub, cocoapods. It's not limited to package managers I personally had a direct hand in.
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I don't feel strongly about it because it was my idea (I admit that it was arbitrary initially) but at this point it's the dominant idiom.
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Further evidence: even in package managers that don't use the .lock extension, people use the term "lock file".
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People also use "lock file" to mean fs mutexes http://search.cpan.org/search?query=lock+file&mode=all … https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=lock%20file …
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I'm just saying, having interacted with file systems a lot, *.lock says to me "this is a fs mutex". Process hung, or left litter behind.
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