file locking primitive

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Sat Jan 3 16:44:33 UTC 2004


Don't forget lock files.  They are very simple: to lock file "foo",
create a file "foo.lock", and create it in a way that fails if the file
already exists.  This is the original Unix locking approach, and I'm
sure it's possible on a lot of other platforms as well.


BTW, Celeste could very much use locking as well, if it were available.


-Lex



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