On Apr 2, 2005 2:51 PM, wsy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Toss it over my wall too, please! :-) > > The problem seems to be that if you have an NFS-mounted directory > containing your files of interest, there is *no* gauranteed way > to lock it without using an "out of band" communications system that > gaurantees sequential serialized delivery of messages with confirmation. > TCP/IP is one such, but NFS semantics are _not_.
It was my (perhaps incorrect) understanding that some recent NFS implementations (like the one which ships with current versions of Mac OS X) did file locking. Nonetheless, I'd be happy with a locking implementation that required a non-NFS disk. a) I don't use an NFS home directory. b) This seems to be a fairly common requirement. :-) Jim _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
