//go:build !windows package flock import ( "errors" "os" "syscall" ) // TryLock attempts to acquire an exclusive, non-blocking flock on the given path. // Returns the locked file and an unlock function on success. The caller should // read/write through the returned file to avoid platform differences with // mandatory locking on Windows. // Returns ErrLocked if the file is already locked by another process. func TryLock(path string) (f *os.File, unlock func(), err error) { f, err = os.OpenFile(path, os.O_CREATE|os.O_RDWR, 0o644) if err != nil { return nil, nil, err } if err := syscall.Flock(int(f.Fd()), syscall.LOCK_EX|syscall.LOCK_NB); err != nil { _ = f.Close() if errors.Is(err, syscall.EWOULDBLOCK) { return nil, nil, ErrLocked } return nil, nil, err } return f, func() { _ = syscall.Flock(int(f.Fd()), syscall.LOCK_UN) _ = f.Close() }, nil }