msvcrt, open_osfhandle, locking

Jeff Kunce kuncej at mail.conservation.state.mo.us
Fri Feb 25 13:03:40 EST 2000


> >Oops - meant "locking function in msvcrt module"
>
> Hmmm. Do you have an example? I can't get it to work.

A while back I wanted file locking with the same API
on both unix and NT. I worked up something based on
posixfile, that uses msvcrt on the NT side. I never used it
production, so handle with care, but it might give you
some ideas. See:
  ntposixfile.py
at:
  http://starship.python.net/crew/jjkunce/

  --Jeff





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