On 16Jul2011 10:37, Josh English <joshua.r.engl...@gmail.com> wrote: | You use a directory as lock mechanism. I think I get how that works. | When you're done manipulating the file, do you just remove the director?
Yes. The advantages of a directory are twofold: you can't mkdir() twice while you can usually open the same file for write more than once (hence the umask 0777 thing, to prevent that); secondly you can put stuff in it though that makes removing the directory more work when you're done with it. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ THE LOST WORLD is based on (so loosely as to re-define "based on" as "with the same title as") Michael Crichton's sequel novel, which introduced us to a second island where dinosaurs were being genetically engineered. - Scott Renshaw on _Jurassic_Park_'s sequel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
