On Jul 16, 1:17 pm, "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.how... / gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 16, 2007, at 1:25 PM, barjunk wrote:
>
> > So the code above modifies the File class so that an instance will
> > include a flocked? method, right?
>
> indeed.
>
>
>
> > Is it a good assumption that something like this would eventually make
> > it into File?
>
> hmmm.  i wouldn't hold my breath - but you could put in an rcr ;-)
>

OK.  I'll keep it lying about then, cause it seems very usefull.

One last thing.  So I assume then, that multiple process as well as
multiple threads will maintain the lock properly.

Mike B.