[Success!] Re: [MERGE] Implement bzrlib.lock with CreateFile rather than LockFileEx on win32 (operational part)

[Martin (gzlist)]

On 02/07/2009, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>
> Basically, though it is because *in process* locking is not properly
> exclusive. It is still properly exclusive *between* processes.

Aha, this is the detail I'd not grasped. So, the nix locks do protect
against the most likely source of problems.

Thanks,

Martin