Class Lock

An interprocess mutex lock.

Typical use might look like:

new Lock.With(directory.makeLock("my.lock")) {
public Object doBody() {
... code to execute while locked ...
}
}.run();

System.Object

Lock

public abstract class Lock : object

Name	Description
failureReason	If a lock obtain called, this failureReason may be set with the "root cause" Exception as to why the lock was not obtained.
LOCK_OBTAIN_WAIT_FOREVER	Pass this value to Obtain(Int64) to try forever to obtain the lock.
LOCK_POLL_INTERVAL	How long Obtain(Int64) waits, in milliseconds, in between attempts to acquire the lock.

Name	Description
IsLocked()	Returns true if the resource is currently locked. Note that one must still call Obtain() before using the resource.
Obtain()	Attempts to obtain exclusive access and immediately return upon success or failure.
Obtain(Int64)	Attempts to obtain an exclusive lock within amount of time given. Polls once per LOCK_POLL_INTERVAL (currently 1000) milliseconds until lockWaitTimeout is passed.
Release()	Releases exclusive access.