Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >> 1: Open the file with os.open >> >> 2: Lock the file exclusively -> no other process can now >> access it. >> >> 3: Use rename to rename the file; this causes a file system >> level implicit unlink of the old file (it dissappears from the >> file system) but the opening process can still access it. >> >> 4: close the file -> the lock is removed and the rename >> finalized.
The open is to happen on the new file name with O_CREAT | O_EXCL flags. Sorry, I forgot that to mention explicitly. However I have not tried it yet, but it should work. Wolfgang Draxinger -- E-Mail address works, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ: 134682867 GPG key FP: 2FC8 319E C7D7 1ADC 0408 65C6 05F5 A645 1FD3 BD3E -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list