ipcmutex: Inter-process locks

In mtmorgan/IPCMutex: A mutex implementation using the Boost.Interprocess library

Description

Inter-process locks

Usage

locked(id)

lock(id)

try_lock(id)

unlock(id)

Arguments

id	character(1) identifying the lock to be obtained.

Value

locked() returns TRUE when mutex is locked, and FALSE otherwise.

lock() creates a named lock, returning TRUE on success.

trylock() returns TRUE if the lock is obtained, FALSE otherwise.

unlock() returns TRUE on success, FALSE (e.g., because there is nothing to unlock) otherwise.

Examples

id <- ipcid("mtx-example")

lock(id)
try_lock(id)
unlock(id)
try_lock(id)
locked(id)

ipcremove(id)

mtmorgan/IPCMutex documentation built on May 23, 2019, 9:34 a.m.