On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:29:35PM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does fcntl.flock work over NFS and SMB and on Windows? > > I don't think file locking will ever work over NFS, since > it's a stateless protocol by design, and locking would > require maintaining state on the server.
You can do file locking over NFS, that's one of the reasons people use fcntl. It uses an RPC side channel separate to the main NFS protocol. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
