class mutex

[Olivier Dagenais]

MSDN says this about an article relating to CreateMutex:  "You can use a
mutex object to protect a shared resource from simultaneous access by
multiple threads or processes."  Does Unix/Linux also have something like
this (at the process level)?  What about Mac and (maybe) other platforms?
It would be nice if they were wrapped in one convenient Python
module/object.

It sounds like Windows uses a tempfile to accomplish this and I would guess
Unix/Linux - a file-oriented OS - would do the same thing.  However, these
are just guesses, we'd need to confirm this...

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"Darrell" <news at dorb.com> wrote in message
news:MUII5.70068$JS3.10348560 at typhoon.nyroc.rr.com...
> If your on Windows then try "win32event.CreateMutex"
>
> --Darrell
>
> "Prof. Peter Stoehr" <peter.stoehr at weihenstephan.org> wrote in message
> > Based on that, I have two questions:
> > 1) Does python provide a real mutex object.
> > 2) What is the use of the class mutex
> >
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