In a message regarding Mac OS X File Interlock dated Fri, 30 Dec 2005
09:18:31 -0600, Ed Kleban said that ...
> I need to implement a file interlock in MacOS X so that I don't have more
> than one application.... or more than one instance of that application that
> are running concurrently trying to open a given file at the same time. It's
> certainly easy enough for me to create for fileToUse.xxx an interlock file
> named fileToUse.xxx.lock and then delete that .lock file when the
> application using fileToUse.xxx closes stops using it or quits. But I'm
> concerned about handling the case where the application crashes.
Wouldn't it be better to just use a mutex?
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Steve Garman
Using REALbasic 2005r4 Professional on Windows XP Pro
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