On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 18:54:18 UTC, Charles Hixson wrote:
I want to open a file with an exclusive lock. It would be
important that no other thread be able to access the file in
write mode, and desirable that no other thread be able to
access the file in read mode. (Ditto for other processes.)
stdio.file.lock (or is it stdio.file.File.lock?) seems to
demand a range of chunks to lock, but the file is not fixed in
length. Is it appropriate to just specify the maximum possible
number of bytes (i.e. ulong.max)?
From the lock[1] description:
If both start and length are zero, the entire file is locked.
[1] https://dlang.org/phobos/std_stdio.html#.File.lock
