flufl.lock - An NFS-safe file lock

This package is called flufl.lock. It is an NFS-safe file-based lock with timeouts for POSIX systems.

Requirements

flufl.lock requires Python 3.6 or newer.

Documentation

A simple guide to using the library is available, along with a detailed API reference.

Project details

• Project home: https://gitlab.com/warsaw/flufl.lock

• Report bugs at: https://gitlab.com/warsaw/flufl.lock/issues

• Code hosting: https://gitlab.com/warsaw/flufl.lock.git

• Documentation: https://flufllock.readthedocs.io/

You can install it with pip:

% pip install flufl.lock

You can grab the latest development copy of the code using git. The master repository is hosted on GitLab. If you have git installed, you can grab your own branch of the code like this:

$ git clone https://gitlab.com/warsaw/flufl.lock.git

You can contact the author via barry@python.org.

Copyright

Copyright (C) 2004-2020 Barry A. Warsaw

Table of Contents

• Using the flufl.lock library
  • Creating a lock
  • Lock acquisition can block
  • Refreshing a lock
  • Lock details
  • Lock state
  • Lock file separator
• Technical details
  • Lock files and claim files
  • Acquiring the lock
  • Breaking the lock
  • Lifetime extension
• API Reference
  • Exceptions
• NEWS for flufl.lock
  • 5.0.1 (2020-08-21)
  • 5.0 (2020-08-20)
  • 4.0 (2020-06-30)
    • API
    • Behavior
    • Other
  • 3.2 (2017-09-03)
  • 3.1 (2017-07-15)
  • 3.0 (2017-05-31)
  • 2.4.1 (2015-10-29)
  • 2.4 (2015-10-10)
  • 2.3.1 (2014-09-26)
  • 2.3 (2014-09-25)
  • 2.2.1 (2012-04-19)
  • 2.2 (2012-01-19)
  • 2.1.1 (2011-08-20)
  • 2.1 (2010-12-22)
  • 2.0.2 (2010-12-19)
  • 2.0.1 (2010-11-27)
  • 2.0 (2010-11-26)
  • Earlier