[IronPython] IronPython2.7 import locking error

[Jeff Hardy]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Dino Viehland <dinov at microsoft.com> wrote:
> It looks like the CRT implements this by calling the LockFile/UnlockFile Win32 APIs (potentially retrying w/ 1 second between tries depending on the mode) so we could do that ourselves w/ the OS file handles.

Clever. Note to self: FileStream.SafeFileHandle.

- Jeff

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Hardy [mailto:jdhardy at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 11:08 AM
> To: Discussion of IronPython
> Cc: Dino Viehland
> Subject: Re: [IronPython] IronPython2.7 import locking error
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> - Jeff
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