Bash flock example

bash_flock.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Bash `flock` example.
# Works on: Linux, BSD
# Doesn't work on: MacOS

# The file which represent the lock.
LOCKFILE="`basename $0`.lock"

# Timeout in seconds.
TIMEOUT=2

# Create the lockfile.
touch $LOCKFILE

# Create a file descriptor over the given lockfile.
exec {FD}<>$LOCKFILE

# Try to lock the file descriptor $FD during $TIMEOUT seconds.
# If it failsm exit with an error.
# Otherwise, the lock is acquired and implicitely droped at the end of the script.
if ! flock -x -w $TIMEOUT $FD; then
  echo "Failed to obtain a lock within $TIMEOUT seconds"
  echo "Another instance of `basename $0` is probably running."
  exit 1
else
  echo "Lock acquired"
fi

Hello,

I very much wonder where you found in the docs the syntax and semantics for the following stanza:
exec {FD}<>$LOCKFILE

This seems un{,der}documented in 'exec' builtin command.

Please, don't hesitate to link to redirection operators, to "{3..8}" sequence expansion ( why just {FD} ? ), and to builtin 'exec' redirection syntax reference/docs , and tell us why " {FD} " means bash must assign to variable named 'FD' the following gained file descriptor.
excerpt : exec: exec [-cl] [-a nom] [commande [arguments ...]] [redirection ...]

Could you light up our candle?

Yours, Kindly,

Val'

Stumbled upon this by accident. Here's the answer to the question:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/226164/what-does-exec-fd-dev-watchdog-do-in-bash

also found flock man page