Comment 3 for bug 917231
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> Fixing this in cron would not ensure mutual exclusion in the cases where these scripts are called by other means, eg manual calls.
I think we shouldn't consider external calls as this is out of cron's scope (if not builtin directly in the application flock's doesn't guarantee mutual exclusion too due to the lack of support for mandantory locks in the Linux kernel).