Basic inter-process locks
The exclusive_control package provides a basic portable implementation of interprocess locks using lock files. It it a fork of zc.lockfile.
The purpose if not specifically to lock files, but to simply provide locks with an implementation based on file-locking primitives. Of course, these locks could be used to mediate access to other files. For example, the ZODB file storage implementation uses file locks to mediate access to file-storage database files. The database files and lock file files are separate files.
Original author is: Zope Foundation and Contributors