From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Subject: Re: Exclusive file access
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:17:54 +0200
Date: 2015-09-01T17:17:54+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1y22mot.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ed3129f2-7c95-4ad9-ba0a-a8c7e4bfe6ae@googlegroups.com
Ahlan Marriott <ahlan@marriott.org> wrote:
> I am not trying to protect the file from other tasks I am trying to
> protect the file from other processes - ie other programs or utilities
> - perhaps executing on other computers if the file in question is on a
> network. I want to open the file in such a way that I am granted
> exclusive write access.
I'm not even sure all operating systems support this.
On Unix systems you typically see programs creating a separate "lock
file" (containing the process ID of the creator) for each locked file.
Greetings,
Jacob
--
"When we cite authors we cite their demonstrations, not their names"
-- Pascal
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-27 13:52 Exclusive file access ahlan
2015-08-27 14:27 ` gautier_niouzes
2015-08-31 23:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-09-01 16:23 ` Pascal Obry
2015-09-01 20:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-08-27 14:42 ` Björn Lundin
2015-08-27 14:48 ` G.B.
2015-08-27 15:08 ` Björn Lundin
2015-08-27 18:38 ` tmoran
2015-08-27 23:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-08-27 23:29 ` Pascal Obry
2015-08-28 7:25 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-08-27 15:15 ` ahlan
2015-08-27 18:29 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-08-28 5:41 ` ahlan
2015-08-28 7:10 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-08-28 17:40 ` ahlan
2015-08-28 19:49 ` Anh Vo
2015-08-28 21:06 ` Simon Wright
2015-08-28 21:38 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-08-29 7:05 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-08-29 8:31 ` Pascal Obry
2015-08-29 12:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-08-30 11:35 ` Florian Weimer
2015-08-30 12:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-08-30 19:37 ` Florian Weimer
2015-08-31 7:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-08-31 21:12 ` Florian Weimer
2015-09-01 7:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-09-07 18:27 ` Florian Weimer
2015-09-07 19:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-09-11 16:54 ` Florian Weimer
2015-08-31 23:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-09-01 7:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-08-29 16:07 ` gautier_niouzes
2015-08-29 17:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-09-01 12:37 ` brbarkstrom
2015-09-01 14:05 ` ahlan
2015-09-01 15:13 ` Simon Wright
2015-09-01 20:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-09-01 15:17 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
2015-09-01 20:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-09-01 16:05 ` G.B.
2015-09-01 20:02 ` brbarkstrom
2015-09-01 21:17 ` Simon Wright
2015-09-05 15:52 ` Björn Lundin
2015-09-01 20:31 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-09-01 15:31 ` ahlan
2015-09-05 15:56 ` Björn Lundin
2015-09-06 17:38 ` brbarkstrom
2015-09-06 19:52 ` Björn Lundin
2015-09-07 15:18 ` brbarkstrom
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