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Possible Duplicate: How can I lock a file using java (if possible) I have two process that invoke two Java programs that modifying the same text file. I notice the content of the text file is ...

I need to lock a file in unix/linux OS. I have googled and read about java.nio.channels Filelock and Reentrant File Lock . But both works in Windows but not in unix. Is there any other way of ...

I have two processes reading/writing same files. So I wanna create a lock between them. My idea is to create a file in that folder named file.lock containing the process identification information. ...

Possible Duplicate: How can I lock a file using java (if possible) Is it possible to lock file so that other apps cannot write to file but can still run it normally? My target platform is windows.

In my application multiple processes are trying access a file for read and write. Every application has a single thread. I need to make sure that no 2 processes are accessing the file at the same time....

I have 2-3 programs which can modify file but I want to block others if one program is using it. I cant use synchronization in this. Is there any other provision ?

I'm writing two programs that communicate through a text file. The first program writes to the file and the second one reads from it. However, there is a problem when the reader program tries to read ...

How can i lock a file then clear its contents and write to it? Clearing a file can be as simple as: FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(someFileObject); And acquiring the lock would be by: ...

In my project, i need to imeplement file locking and the problem is that we need to use java 6 only so what are the ways through which i can implement file locking for both platform(windows/linux)

Is there any way to lock files of these types: txt pdf docx doc If locked, it should not be possible to edit, copy or print it.

How do I get the id of my Java process? I know there are several platform-dependent hacks, but I would prefer a more generic solution.

Currently I'm working on the project that does processing files from source directory in one of it's routines. There's a Java process that's looking for specified directory and tries to read and ...

I need to start 1-3 external programs in my Java application that have paths defined by the user. I have few requirements: I don't want the program to execute if it is already running I don't want ...

I have a process that will be called rather frequently from cron to read a file that has certain move related commands in it. My process needs to read and write to this data file - and keep it locked ...

I'm trying to implement the following operation in Java and am not sure how: /* * write data (Data is defined in my package) * to a file only if it does not exist, return success */ boolean ...