astropy/astropy — Issue #90: Consistent scheme for file/directory locking
Author: eteq
Created: 2011-11-26 03:54:05+00:00
State: open

We should have a function/class in `utils` that can be used to lock files or directories to enable thread/process-safe file access. @mdboom pointed out http://code.google.com/p/pylockfile/ as a good place to look for the way we want to do this (perhaps even just pull it into extern).

Once this is done, these packages (and possibly others I'm not aware of) should be updated to use it:

* astropy.config.data
* astropy.config.configs (maybe?)
* astropy.vo