On 10May2013 10:56, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: | Cameron Simpson wrote: | >You open a file with "0" modes, so | >that it is _immediately_ not writable. Other attempts to make the | >lock file thus fail because of the lack of write, | | I don't think that's quite right. You open it with | O_CREAT+O_EXCL, which atomically fails if the file | already exists. The read/write modes don't really | come into it, as far as I know.
Interesting. That is more direct. My understanding that it was enough to create the file with 0 modes. Maybe either will do. Must check... Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> Piracy gets easier every day, but listening to legally purchased music gets harder by the day. Firehed - http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=179175&cid=14846089 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list