CEO updated

CEO/helpers/lock_mechanism.js

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+const lockfile = require('proper-lockfile');
+
+async function lockFile(filePath) {
+    try {
+        await lockfile.lock(filePath, {
+            realpath: false,
+            retries: {
+                retries: 10,        // Number of retries
+                factor: 2,          // The exponential factor
+                minTimeout: 1000,   // The number of milliseconds before starting the first retry
+                maxTimeout: 5000,   // The maximum number of milliseconds between two retries
+                randomize: true,    // Randomizes the timeouts by multiplying with a factor between 1 to 2
+            }
+        });
+        console.log(`File locked: ${filePath}`);
+    } catch (error) {
+        console.error(`Error locking file ${filePath}: ${error.message}`);
+        throw error; // Propagate the error if unable to lock after retries
+    }
+}
+
+async function unlockFile(filePath) {
+    try {
+        await lockfile.unlock(filePath);
+        console.log(`File unlocked: ${filePath}`);
+    } catch (error) {
+        console.error(`Error unlocking file ${filePath}: ${error.message}`);
+        // Decide whether to throw the error or not, based on your error handling strategy
+        throw error;
+    }
+}
+
+module.exports = {lockFile, unlockFile}