Re: Lockfile hanling

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On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 31.03.15 um 21:17 schrieb Ian Kelly:
>> flock locks are per-process; they won't help for synchronizing access
>> between competing threads in the same process.
>>
>
> Ok. But if it is really all in one process, then a classical mutex would do,
> wouldn't it? I'm not experienced with threading in Python, but it seems from
> the documentation, that threading.Lock() works like a mutex.

As long as there's not *also* some other external process that needs
to access the file occasionally. :-)

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Lockfile hanling Ervin Hegedüs <airween@gmail.com> - 2015-03-31 16:50 +0200
  Re: Lockfile hanling Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-03-31 20:58 +0200
    Re: Lockfile hanling Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-03-31 13:17 -0600
      Re: Lockfile hanling Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-03-31 21:59 +0200
        Re: Lockfile hanling Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-03-31 14:12 -0600
        Re: Lockfile hanling Sturla Molden <sturla.molden@gmail.com> - 2015-04-01 23:51 +0000

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