Larry Bates wrote: > I guess my approach would be different. To eliminate any race > conditions, I would keep a small text file that always contained > the next filename that is to be written. Something like: > > nextfiletowrite=/path/filename006.dat > > I would try to get a lock on this file, read it, extract next > filename, increment the counter portion of the filename, > write it back out and unlock it. Now I have the name of the > file to write that is unique to my instance and I can write it > without worrying about other processes.
Yes, that would work as well but I get the feeling that 1) most people don't write to an automatically incrementing filename 2) the few who do don't sweat the race condition Thanks for your reply Manuel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
