In message <mailman.1004.1235929208.11746.python-l...@python.org>, bruce wrote:
> using any kind of file locking process requires that i essentially have a > gatekeeper, allowing a single process to enter, access the files at a > time... The gatekeeper doesn't need to do any more than ensure that any particular filename is only locked by a maximum of one process at a time. Given that interprocess communication (and consequent context-switching) is going to be orders of magnitude faster than accessing disk files, there's no a-priori reason to assume that this need be a performance bottleneck. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
