On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:28:21 +0200, Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Elmo Mäntynen enlightened us with: >> Is there something better than using fnctl? It seems a bit >> intimidating with a quick look. > > Locking files is a complex business. What do you want to lock? Why? > Lock it with respect to what? It's easier to lock a file for local > use, compared to when the file also has to be locked from, say, use > via the network. > > Sybren
Only locally. I want to be able to read/write to a single file from multiple possibly parallel processes. Would 'touch lock' (or something like that) work reliably (this just occured to me)? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
