{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, runtimeShell }: stdenv.mkDerivation { pname = "flockit"; version = "2012-08-11"; src = fetchFromGitHub { owner = "smerritt"; repo = "flockit"; rev = "5c2b2092f8edcc8e3e2eb6ef66c968675dbfa686"; sha256 = "0vajck9q2677gpn9a4flkyz7mw69ql1647cjwqh834nrcr2b5164"; }; installPhase = '' mkdir -p $out/lib $out/bin cp ./libflockit.so $out/lib (cat < $out/bin/flockit chmod +x $out/bin/flockit ''; meta = with stdenv.lib; { description = "LD_PRELOAD shim to add file locking to programs that don't do it (I'm looking at you, rsync!)"; longDescription = '' This library and tool exists solely because rsync doesn't have file locking. It's not used like a normal library; you don't link against it, and you don't have to patch your source code to use it. It's inserted between your program and its libraries by use of LD_PRELOAD. For example: $ env LD_PRELOAD=$(nix-build -A pkgs.flockit)/lib/libflockit.so FLOCKIT_FILE_PREFIX=test rsync SRC DEST Besides the library a handy executable is provided which can simplify the above to: $ $(nix-build -A pkgs.flockit)/bin/flockit test rsync SRC DEST Also see the following blog post: https://www.swiftstack.com/blog/2012/08/15/old-school-monkeypatching/ ''; homepage = https://github.com/smerritt/flockit; license = licenses.asl20; platforms = platforms.linux; maintainers = [ maintainers.basvandijk ]; }; }