Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > opening a file for writing doesn't lock it on Unix. if you want > locking, you need other mechanisms, and I'm not sure any of them > work properly on all configurations, under all circumstances.
Hmm. What about trying to listen on a PF_UNIX socket associated with the lock file name. If another process has the socket bound, you get EISCONN. But if the other process exists, maybe there's a delay before another process can have it, like there is for TCP (I haven't tested, or at least I don't remember the result). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
