Issue 32076: Expose LockFile on Windows (original) (raw)
Issue32076
Created on 2017-11-19 20:21 by pitrou, last changed 2022-04-11 14:58 by admin.
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| msg306514 - (view) | Author: Antoine Pitrou (pitrou) *  |
Date: 2017-11-19 20:21 |
| 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. |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2022-04-11 14:58:54 | admin | set | github: 76257 |
| 2017-11-19 20:21:43 | pitrou | create |