Occasionally, there may be different resources of the same type in a cluster configuration that should not execute actions in parallel. When a resource agent needs to guard against parallel execution on the same machine, it can use the ocf_take_lock and ocf_release_lock_on_exit convenience functions:

LOCKFILE=${HA_RSCTMP}/foobar
ocf_release_lock_on_exit $LOCKFILE

foobar_start() {
    ...
    ocf_take_lock $LOCKFILE
    ...
}

ocf_take_lock attempts to acquire the designated $LOCKFILE. When it is unavailable, it sleeps a random amount of time between 0 and 1 seconds, and retries. ocf_release_lock_on_exit releases the lock file when the agent exits (for any reason).