Am 31.03.15 um 16:50 schrieb Ervin Hegedüs:
there is an app, written in Python, which stores few bytes of
datas in a single file. The application uses threads. Every
thread can modify the file, but only one at a time. I'm using a
lock file to prevent the multiple access.

Here is the lock method:

[...]
This works as well for me - about 3-4 weeks. After some weeks, I
got this error:

OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files: '/var/spool/myapp/queue.lock'


Can you try if fcntl.flock() does what you want? Should be better than inventing your own locking mechanism.

        Christian
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