Top "File-locking" questions

The concept of locking a file to serialize concurrent accesses to said file.

Visual Studio 2010 Build Fails to File Copy Error

I'm building a project in Visual Studio 2010 and the build fails because it cannot copy the assemblyname.dll file from …

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Is std::ifstream thread-safe & lock-free?

I intend to perform opening for reading a single file from many threads using std::ifstream. My concern is if …

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