New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr>: msvcrt.locking() is sometimes practically useless since its so-called "non-blocking" mode will still block for 1 second. Instead, the Windows API LockFile() function (and its companion UnlockFile()) allows real non-blocking locking.
Right now you have to call LockFile() using ctypes (see https://github.com/mwilliamson/locket.py/pull/8/files for an example). It would be nice to expose it somewhere, for example in msvcrt or another module. ---------- components: Library (Lib), Windows messages: 306514 nosy: paul.moore, pitrou, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Expose LockFile on Windows type: enhancement versions: Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue32076> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
