From: Bernhard M. Wiedemann <bmwiedemann+intltool@suse.de>
avoid a race where some processes try to use a partial cache file
that is still being written to.
Note that we release the lock before load_cache,
because if we got the lock, the cache is already completely written
and it is OK to have multiple parallel readers
Index: intltool-0.51.0/intltool-merge.in
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@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ use Getopt::Long;
@@ -392,11 +393,14 @@ sub load_cache
sub get_cached_translation_database
+ open(my $lockfh, ">", "$cache_file.lock") or die $!;
+ flock($lockfh, LOCK_EX) or die "Could not lock '$cache_file.lock' - $!";
my $cache_file_age = -M $cache_file;
if (defined $cache_file_age)
if ($cache_file_age <= &get_newest_po_age)
@@ -404,6 +408,7 @@ sub get_cached_translation_database