Paul Rubin wrote: >> 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.
I'm pretty sure "it" in tim's post refers to the his snippet, not yours. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
