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 _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
