Top "File-locking" questions

Notepad beats them all?

On a Windows Server 2012 R2 system, a Kotlin program uses FileChannel.tryLock() to hold an exclusive lock on a file, …

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How can I unlock a file that is locked by a process in .NET

I want my application to clean all the temp files it used, the problem is that not all the temp …

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Mac OS X equivalent of Linux flock(1) command

Is there a flock command on Mac OS X that manages file lock? http://linux.die.net/man/1/flock

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File.Open for read access denied on executing file in Windows

I have a problem with file permissions on executing files in Windows that seems to be solved after following a …

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What is the following error in my Maven project? Access Denied

Error as shown in Marker: Error occured processing XML 'C:\Users\CHANDAN-G\Documents\workspace-sts-3.6.3.RELEASE\java-blog-aggregator\target\classes\com\chandan\…

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Lock file exclusively then delete/move it

I'm implementing a class in C# that is supposed to monitor a directory, process the files as they are dropped …

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python lockf and flock behaviour

I have read enough posts on stackoverflow regarding the difference b/w flock/lockf/fcntl but I am unable to …

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Test if file is locked

In PHP, how can I test if a file has already been locked with flock? For example, if another running …

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Is a move operation in Unix atomic?

Suppose there are 2 processes P1 and P2, and they access a shared file Foo.txt. Suppose P2 is reading from …

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Using java file locks within single JVM and across multiple JVMs

I guess I miss something, but I cannot understand how file locks work in Java. To be more exact - …

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