[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> ith a quick look.
>>
>
>
> f = open("/path/to/data/directory/lockfile","r")
> try:
> fcntl.flock(f.fileno(),fcntl.LOCK_EX)
> ...access data freely here...
> finally:
> f.close()
>
> Closing the file should release the lock (unless you have a truly
> horrible operating system).
>
>
I also find that fcntl has problems with NFS (or at least, *I* had
problems using the python fcntl module and nfs - could be that horrible
operating system, but doing things like that over nfs can be tricky).
-carl
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