Looking for general advice on complex program

[Cameron Simpson]

On 16Jul2011 10:37, Josh English <Joshua.R.English at gmail.com> wrote:
| You use a directory as lock mechanism. I think I get how that works.
| When you're done manipulating the file, do you just remove the director?

Yes. The advantages of a directory are twofold: you can't mkdir() twice
while you can usually open the same file for write more than once (hence
the umask 0777 thing, to prevent that); secondly you can put stuff in it
though that makes removing the directory more work when you're done with
it.

Cheers,
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