optionally protect against multiple starts with flock (#1873)

* optionally protect against multiple starts with flock

Fixes #1823

* use traditional .lock extension

* move config key to top level

vendor/github.com/gofrs/flock/README.md

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+# flock
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+
+`flock` implements a thread-safe sync.Locker interface for file locking. It also
+includes a non-blocking TryLock() function to allow locking without blocking execution.
+
+## License
+`flock` is released under the BSD 3-Clause License. See the `LICENSE` file for more details.
+
+## Go Compatibility
+This package makes use of the `context` package that was introduced in Go 1.7. As such, this
+package has an implicit dependency on Go 1.7+.
+
+## Installation
+```
+go get -u github.com/gofrs/flock
+```
+
+## Usage
+```Go
+import "github.com/gofrs/flock"
+
+fileLock := flock.New("/var/lock/go-lock.lock")
+
+locked, err := fileLock.TryLock()
+
+if err != nil {
+	// handle locking error
+}
+
+if locked {
+	// do work
+	fileLock.Unlock()
+}
+```
+
+For more detailed usage information take a look at the package API docs on
+[GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/gofrs/flock).