Singleton process

[Andrew Bennetts]

[Please don't top-post]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 01:38:27AM -0500, Benjamin Han wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Jp Calderone wrote:
[...]
> >     import os, errno
> >
> >     def shouldRun():
> >         try:
> >             os.mkdir(MAGIC_PATH)
> >         except OSError, e:
> >             if e.args[0] == errno.EEXIST:
> >                 return False
> >             raise
> >         return True
> 
> But this solution creates a file race condition?

How?  mkdir is atomic.  Either it creates the directory and succeeds, or it
fails.  I don't see any problems here.

-Andrew.