On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Alexander Cohen wrote:

> Is there anyway to do interprocess locks using cocoa ( like a Mutex in Win32 
> )? The best i've found is not cocoa and uses flock but the man pages say its 
> advisory only which is kindof scary.

"Advisory" only means that programs need to explicitly cooperate with the 
locking scheme -- opt-in, as it were -- in order to be affected by it.  But 
that's going to be true of most locking primitives such as semaphores or 
mutexes, too.

Regards,
Ken

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