Re: Looking for general advice on complex program

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Date	Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:19:41 +1000
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On 16Jul2011 10:34, Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> wrote:
| I found a FileLock (lost the link and it's not in the code) that uses
| context managers to create a ".lock" file in the same directory of the
| file. It uses os.unlink to delete the .lock file but I don't know if
| this deletes the file or just removes it from the directory and leaves
| the memory filled.

os.unlink removes the filename. On all sane systems, if that is the last
reference to the file (no other names, no open file handles) then the
memory/storage is also released.

| If it does, I don't know if the OS will overwrite
| that memory. I'm afraid of taking up lots of space that I don't need
| with this program.

Don't be.

| The docs indicate that Unix recovers the memory, but I'm not sure about Windows.

I confess to disliking Windows, but I do not believe it is that broken.

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> DoD#743
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Re: Looking for general advice on complex program Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2011-07-16 10:34 -0700
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