http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/mutex-file/2011-07-15T21:12:40-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2011-07-15T21:12:40-07:00Ben Hoythttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4170919/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577794-win32-named-mutex-class-for-system-wide-mutex/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 577794 by <a href="/recipes/users/4170919/">Ben Hoyt</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ctypes/">ctypes</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/lock/">lock</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/mutex/">mutex</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/process/">process</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/threading/">threading</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/win32/">win32</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/windows/">windows</a>). </p> <p>NamedMutex is a class for using Windows (Win32) named mutexes for system-wide locks. For example, we use these to lock system-wide log files that multiple processes can write to.</p>