Q: How can I lock a file in Windows?
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deathtospam43423 at altavista.com
Sat Mar 9 05:06:08 EST 2002
I am writing a cgi based, html chat script in Python. Basically, it takes
input from people's browsers, writes it to a text file, then displays the
contents of that file back to everyone. Simple.
Problem is I need to be able to lock the text file during the write
procedure, so that only one person can write to it at a time.
Unfortunately, not having access to a Unix server atm, I'm using Windows.
That means I don't have the fcntl module, which means I can't use flock to
lock the file.
Is there another way I can lock the file in Windows?
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cdewin at dingoblue.net.au
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