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Re: locking files on Linux

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Date 2012-10-18 15:49 +0100
Subject Re: locking files on Linux
From andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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2012/10/18 Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>:
>
> If what you're guarding against is multiple instances of your
> application modifying the file, then either of the advisory file
> locking schemes or the separate lock file should work fine.
>
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Ok so I tried a small example to see if I can make it fail, but this
below just works perfectly fine.

Maybe it's too fast and it release the file in time, but I would
expect it to take some time and fail instead..

import fcntl

from multiprocessing import Process

FILENAME = 'file.txt'


def long_text():
    return ('some text' * (100 * 100))


class Locked:
    def __init__(self, fileobj):
        self.fileobj = fileobj

    def __enter__(self):
        # any problems here?
        fcntl.lockf(self.fileobj, fcntl.LOCK_EX)
        return self.fileobj

    def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
        fcntl.lockf(self.fileobj, fcntl.LOCK_UN)


def write_to_file():
    with open(FILENAME, 'w') as to_lock:
        with Locked(to_lock):
            to_lock.write(long_text())


if __name__ == '__main__':
    Process(target=write_to_file).start()
    Process(target=write_to_file).start()

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locking files on Linux andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-10-18 14:14 +0100
  Re: locking files on Linux Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-18 13:27 +0000
    Re: locking files on Linux andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-10-18 14:44 +0100
      Re: locking files on Linux Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-18 13:57 +0000
        Re: locking files on Linux andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-10-18 15:49 +0100
        Re: locking files on Linux Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2012-10-18 16:04 +0100
        Re: locking files on Linux andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-10-18 16:08 +0100
        Re: locking files on Linux Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2012-10-18 16:31 +0100
        Re: locking files on Linux andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-10-19 13:15 +0100
      Re: locking files on Linux Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2012-10-19 15:36 +0100
    Re: locking files on Linux Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2012-10-18 14:58 +0100

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