Safelock is a file-based locking primitive which provides mutual exclusion between unrelated processes and threads.
Safelock offers advantages over POSIX and BSD file locks such as:
- Compatible with multi-threaded applications
- Support for lock attempt timeouts
- Detection of crashed lock holders
- Detailed lock status (PID, lock age, custom data)
Safelock requires POSIX.1-2008 robust mutexes. Tested under Linux 2.6.32 and Solaris 11.
Review safelock.h or http://mpx.github.com/safelock/ for detailed
documentation.
License: MIT
Mark Pulford <[email protected]>
#include "safelock.h"
...
safelock_t lock;
err = safelock_open(&lock, "lock.dat", 0660);
err = safelock_lock(lock, SAFELOCK_LOCK_WAIT, 42);
...
err = safelock_unlock(lock);
err = safelock_close(&lock);