[IronPython] IronPython2.7 import locking error

[Jeff Hardy]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Dino Viehland <dinov at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Oh I see I missed the line containing msvcrt.  This just looks like it hasn't been implemented (we still have only a very partially implemented version of msvcrt).  It should be trivial to do add this , it should just be a P/Invoke out to msvcrt100, if someone wants to provide a patch.

It seems to me that msvcrt.locking is actually quite tricky, as it
normally uses the CRT file handles when calling the locking functions.
We'd have to emulate the behavior using the .NET locking functions (or
rewrite all of our file APIs to use the CRT).

- Jeff