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[Kenneth Brody]

Robert Haussmann wrote:
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> > The lockfile is only locked while being updated, which only takes
> > a fraction of a second.  If it happened to be locked when you tried
> > to read it, one of two things would happen (depending on platform).
> > Either it would wait that fraction of a second and then read it, or
> > it would return an error that the file was locked.
> >
> 
> Very good to know, thank you!  Which platform(s) would return an error
> that the file was locked?

I believe that Windows would return an error 33, and that most *nix
platforms will wait the fraction of a second.  (Some *nix platforms
which use "advisory locking" may even let it be read even if locked.)

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