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Re: inter-process locks


  • Subject: Re: inter-process locks
  • From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:21:16 -0600

On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Alexander Cohen wrote:

> Is there anyway to do interprocess locks using cocoa ( like a Mutex in Win32 )? The best i've found is not cocoa and uses flock but the man pages say its advisory only which is kindof scary.

"Advisory" only means that programs need to explicitly cooperate with the locking scheme -- opt-in, as it were -- in order to be affected by it.  But that's going to be true of most locking primitives such as semaphores or mutexes, too.

Regards,
Ken

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