Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!bete-des-vosges.org!news.redatomik.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.033 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.93; '*S*': 0.00; 'error:': 0.07; 'think,': 0.07; 'except:': 0.09; 'filename': 0.09; 'try:': 0.09; 'worse': 0.09; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.11; 'thread': 0.14; 'ah,': 0.16; 'maintainers': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'file,': 0.19; '(the': 0.22; 'python?': 0.22; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.23; '31,': 0.24; 'deleted.': 0.24; 'directory.': 0.24; 'passes': 0.24; 'skip': 0.24; 'file.': 0.24; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; "i've": 0.25; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'function': 0.29; 'patch': 0.29; "doesn't": 0.30; "i'm": 0.30; 'that.': 0.31; 'maintaining': 0.32; 'worked': 0.33; 'minimal': 0.33; 'could': 0.34; 'info': 0.35; 'skip:s 30': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'version': 0.36; 'method': 0.36; 'thanks': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'skip:o 20': 0.38; 'sure': 0.39; 'changed': 0.39; 'remove': 0.60; 'from:charset:utf-8': 0.61; 'content- disposition:inline': 0.62; 'name': 0.63; 'to:addr:gmail.com': 0.65; 'close': 0.67; 'believe': 0.68; 'mar': 0.68; '2.5.': 0.84; '2015': 0.84; 'look.': 0.84; 'good,': 0.91; 'received:86': 0.91; 'received:hu': 0.93 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=3J4G8fpYcW7qeI2z3Fg4+4Oyv7PaYB/o2wxSjjjdUko=; b=Zh/tmiQjNNT7MBqEG9NnUD2Wv84zcXA3JA96XYQygLZC8NlrXJf8E5hyZ8lXdecrVg XowIFJ02x1Cbl19u1xA2gaXu6V3eYa6oRwKTo2q28plkZibT8tUWDgwWKFZ2QTFnoQrH +cNvtWqAv39dLp5bEGqHUvj78wMucRmTViV4rCqVfNXGZjc77nUWY3qG4BlhvAHZKsfj PTCPKzuejZtxTLQUV5+d0KiKKh3YbXuusLLCdninr+Gjkk4j+u5jy5AYC/51I2x42OhX GFnryy9TZkZFT3sid2apLHj4PFFPqgD6Fu/U4f+05IKJk1t5sEeOlpDYltUsj/FWSziG Y3pw== X-Received: by 10.194.90.7 with SMTP id bs7mr73511124wjb.7.1427817350090; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 08:55:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:56:26 +0200 From: Ervin =?utf-8?Q?Heged=C3=BCs?= To: Skip Montanaro Cc: Python Subject: Re: Lockfile hanling References: <20150331145012.GA4460@arxnet.hu> <20150331150656.GA4740@arxnet.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.19 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 37 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1427817358 news.xs4all.nl 2867 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:35038 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:88392 Hi Skip, On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:19:27AM -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > sorry - at the end of the function there is a close() method to a > > file, after the thread passes the modifications: > > > > try: > > os.remove(self.lockfile) > > except: > > syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_DEBUG, "Sync error: " + str(sys.exc_info()[1])) > > Hmmm... Still not seeing os.close(fl)... > > > And I think, the "(deleted)" info near the filename in proc/PID/fd > > means the lockfile had been deleted. > > os.remove() will remove the lockfile name from the directory. It > doesn't automatically close the file. ah, well, many-many-many thanks - that was what I misses... > >> You might consider the pylockfile module... > > > sounds good, thanks - what's the minimal version of Python? I've > > only 2.5 on that server... > > When I was still maintaining it, it worked with 2.5, and I distributed > a patch you could apply to get it to work with 2.4. I'm not sure if > the current maintainers have changed that. You'd have to look. If > worse comes to worst, I believe 0.9.1 (the last version I released) > should still work with 2.5. thanks for the info - now it works as very well. a.