class twisted.python.lockfile.FilesystemLock: (source)
Known subclasses: twisted.internet.defer.DeferredFilesystemLock
A mutex.
This relies on the filesystem property that creating a symlink is an atomic operation and that it will fail if the symlink already exists. Deleting the symlink will release the lock.
| Instance Variable | name | The name of the file associated with this lock. |
| Instance Variable | clean | Indicates whether this lock was released cleanly by its last owner. Only meaningful after lock has been called and returns True. |
| Instance Variable | locked | Indicates whether the lock is currently held by this object. |
| Method | __init__ | Undocumented |
| Method | lock | Acquire this lock. |
| Method | unlock | Release this lock. |
lock has been called and returns True.Undocumented
Acquire this lock.
| Returns | True if the lock is acquired, false otherwise. (type: bool) | |
| Raises | OSError | Any exception os.symlink() may raise, other than errno.EEXIST. |
Release this lock.
This deletes the directory with the given name.
| Raises | OSError | Any exception os.readlink() may raise. |
| ValueError | If the lock is not owned by this process. |