threading support in python

[Bryan Olson]

sjdevnull at yahoo.com wrote:
> Bryan Olson wrote:
>> I think it's even worse. The standard Python library offers
>> shared memory, but not cross-process locks.
> 
> File locks are supported by the standard library (at least on Unix,
> I've not tried on Windows).  They work cross-process and are a normal
> method of interprocess locking even in C code.

Ah, O.K. Like Paul, I was unaware how Unix file worked with
mmap.


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--Bryan