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Is there a way to exclusively lock a file to prevent other
processes from reading it while we have it open?
I need to cache some overflow data to disk in a temp file and I
want to make sure no other processes can read the contents of
this file while I'm using it.
I tried the following using
On May 4, 2010, at 5:37 PM, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
Is there a way to exclusively lock a file to prevent other
processes from reading it while we have it open?
I need to cache some overflow data to disk in a temp file and I
want to make sure no other processes can read the contents
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:37 PM, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
Is there a way to exclusively lock a file to prevent other processes from
reading it while we have it open?
I need to cache some overflow data to disk in a temp file and I want to make
sure no other processes can read the contents
pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
Is there a way to exclusively lock a file to prevent other
processes from reading it while we have it open?
I need to cache some overflow data to disk in a temp file and I
want to make sure no other processes can read the contents of
this file while I'm using it.
I
On May 4, 2010, at 5:37 PM, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
Is there a way to exclusively lock a file to prevent other processes
from reading it while we have it open?
My environment is Python 2.6.4 (32-bit) under Windows, but I'm looking
for a cross-platform solution if that's possible.
Some
Philip Semanchuk wrote:
On May 4, 2010, at 5:37 PM, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
Is there a way to exclusively lock a file to prevent other
processes from reading it while we have it open?
If you can use SQLite to store the data, it will deal with
your locking problems. The pain of getting
