yes, I believe it does not work if you kill the JVM. I think it also did not work if you call System.exit(), but I am don't remember that exactly. At least that use to be the case.
Bryan Pendleton wrote:
Mike Matrigali wrote:2) determine if the existing lock is false, ie. the creating process exited without cleaning up the lock file.Is the reason that this is hard because File.deleteOnExit() is not reliable?thanks, bryan
