> > I used only shared lock, in order to be compatible with Python tests,
> > which try to acquire the lock exclusively. On Windows if the exclusive
> > lock is used, than the read access is denied too for other instances of this
> file.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul-Daniel Boca <pb...@cloudbasesolutions.com>
>
> I'm still not sure that real locking is actually needed for Windows.
> I believe that, on Windows, the functionality of a lock file only requires
> holding the file open. For a program to detect whether the lock file is
> locked,
> it can just try to delete it; on Windows, I believe that deleting an open file
> fails.
[Alin Gabriel Serdean: ] That is correct Ben. But think about somebody which is
using python and coming from a Unix environment, he will try to read/write to
the locked file. In my opinion we should try to mimic that behavior.
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