Allow for timeouts in acquiring a daemon lock #31
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The current code waits forever on acquiring a synchronization lock.
This can cause issues when there are a large number of daemons. In
such a case, the JVM can terminate after waiting for a long time.
This can often lead to confusion for users.
In this change we:
lock implementation to throw the exception to indicate a timeout
when trying to fetch the lock. The exception handler prints a
helpful message allowing users to know that the Daemon is stalling
on fetching the lock.