http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/mutex/new/2015-01-09T10:14:15-08:00ActiveState Code Recipes2015-01-09T10:14:15-08:00Fabio Zadroznyhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4180406/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578998-systemmutex/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578998 by <a href="/recipes/users/4180406/">Fabio Zadrozny</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/file/">file</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/filelock/">filelock</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/lock/">lock</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/mutex/">mutex</a>). </p> <p>This module provides a way to create a mutex which is valid for the system (i.e.: it can be seen by multiple processes).</p> <p>Note that the mutex is kept until release_mutex() is called or when it's garbage-collected.</p>

2011-07-15T21:12:40-07:00Ben 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>