Locks was Re: [antlr-interest] ANTLR 3.0ea1 and ANTLRWorks 1.0ea1 released!

[Terence Parr]

On Jun 2, 2005, at 2:31 PM, Matthew Ford wrote:

> A basic problem with Java file locks is that you cannot lock a file  
> before
> it exists and has been opened.
> I gave up on Java locks and wrote my own lock table (hash table on the
> cononical filename)

Hi Matthew, yep, I could do it for one VM with one word:  
synchronized, but I needed it to work across multiple VMs on the same  
machine.

Thanks
Ter
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