Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dr. Who wrote:
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>
>>Please let me know if I'm missing something since they seem like
>>normal file operations that I would hope Python would abstract away.
>
>
> I don't think of them as "normal" operations. They are "extra" stuff that
> is not only dependent on the operating system but also on the file system
> in use.
It's a UNIX legacy problem. UNIX historically was very weak
at interprocess communication and locking, and while today, most
UNIX-like systems have some kind of add-on for those functions,
they were never really standardized.
But see
http://www.thinkspot.net/scripts/posixmutexfile.py
http://www.thinkspot.net/scripts/mutexfile.py
http://www.thinkspot.net/scripts/winmutexfile.py
for an attempt to deal with this probl;em in a portable way.
The code is somewhat dated, but it's on the right track.
John Nagle
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