The Old New Thing

Using opportunistic locks to get out of the way if somebody wants the file

April 15, 2013 Apr 15, 2013 04/15/13

Raymond Chen

Opportunistic locks allow you to be notified when somebody else tries to access a file you have open. This is usually done if you want to use a file provided nobody else wants it. For example, you might be a search indexer that wants to extract information from a file, but if somebody opens the file for writing, you don't want them to get ...