From: Francis Cianfrocca Date: 2006-08-15T06:57:36+09:00 Subject: Re: How do you use flock and clean up lock files? On 8/14/06, John Carter wrote: > Nothing known about CreateProcess. > > Where do I start looking for that? > CreateProcess is a Windows API. So is CreateMutex, which you'll want to look at. Daniel Berger's Win32 library may have Ruby wrappers for these, so I'd have a look there too.