System-wide mutex in Python on Linux

Question

Is there any easy way to have a system-wide mutex in Python on Linux? By \"system-wide\", I mean the mutex will be used by a group of Python processes; this is in c

Answer 1

For a system-wide mutex that enables the synchronization of absolutely separate processes (i.e., to INCLUDE Linux processes that do NOT belong to the same processes tree), simply use fcntl.flock. I suppose that using a memory file under Linux' /run/shm folder may make it perform faster.

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