"Tim Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's the same kind of principle as my posted snippet, it doesn't > rely on the file's presence or absence as such. It only cares when > the file exists *and* is held open by another process. When the > process exits, the lock ends without needing to clean up. > > It works on Windows, but that doesn't help the OP :)
Huh? Fcntl is on linux. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list