On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Rando Christensen wrote:

> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>>   require 'posixlock'
>>   def lock_test
>>     pid = Process.pid
>>     42.times do
>>       open(__FILE__,'r+'){|f| f.posixlock(File::LOCK_EX) and puts
>> "locked by <#{ pid }>"}
>>     end
>>   end
>>   fork ? lock_test && Process.wait : lock_test
>
> I don't have nfs to test on currently, but I assume this means it worked? :
>
> vivi ~/src/posixlock-0.0.1 % ruby test.rb
> locked by <1276>
> locked by <1276>

yup.

thanks a bunch.  mac __are__ nice i guess!  now all i have to do is deal with
the windows thing...

regards.

-a
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