Cameron Simpson wrote:
You open a file with "0" modes, so that it is _immediately_ not writable. Other attempts to make the lock file thus fail because of the lack of write,
I don't think that's quite right. You open it with O_CREAT+O_EXCL, which atomically fails if the file already exists. The read/write modes don't really come into it, as far as I know. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
