From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2007-07-17T07:40:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Check Flock Status on File


On Jul 16, 2007, at 3:39 PM, barjunk wrote:

> One last thing.  So I assume then, that multiple process as well as
> multiple threads will maintain the lock properly.

no - just processes.  it's easy to extend ruby's flock to support  
processes though: just keep state in thread local vars - i think i  
actually have code lying around that does just that.... (goes  
hunting...)

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