Lockfile hanling

[Skip Montanaro]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Ervin Hegedüs <airween at gmail.com> wrote:
> After few weeks the process
> reaches the number if max fd's.
>
> How can I prevent or avoid this issue? What's the correct way to
> handle the lockfile in Python?

Ervin,

You need to close the files you open. I don't see that happening in
your code snippet. You might consider the pylockfile module, available
from PyPI:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lockfile

(I'm the original author, though others have taken it over.)

Skip