From: khaines@...
Date: 2006-10-25T07:13:49+09:00
Subject: Re: File#flock as a cross-process mutex

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

> note that this is file based, not flock based so, while the performance isn't
> that of flock, it's not bad either.  though i'm guessing from your use case
> you are locking too often...

It works very well, but doesn't work on Windows, though.  Ara, if I sent 
you my hack that provides flock based locking if a) specifically requested 
or b) the default file based algorithm fails, would you be interested in 
integrating it into your current codebase, in a less ugly fashion?

That would render your lockfile.rb very cross-platform capable.


Kirk Haines