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Consider supporting filesystem lock mechanisms #58
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Obviously concurrent changes to the same ini file are now prevented via sync.RWMutex.
This in-memory lock is totally sufficient for most use cases where user needs some safety checks in the same process, but I found myself in situation where I would find an actual file-lock handy.
e.g. to prevent user from opening the file in their editor and start editing the ini file while a go program (using this library) interacts with it.
I think there may be a way to implement this in a way that it doesn't break cross-platform compatibility - just have it gracefully degrade - on systems that don't support flock.
https://golang.org/pkg/syscall/#Flock
Any thoughts - any reasons why a potential PR would not be accepted?
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unknwon commentedon Aug 3, 2016
Seems not much resources can be found about Go flock...
Not sure how well they work cross-platform.