PID/Hostname File Locking for Cluster Environments.
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Description
The PID file locking ecosystem in Python may not be robust to the networked filesystems common to HPC clusters, which may have multiple hosts on multiple operating systems.
Quoting @amilsted:
> Julia core uses https://github.com/vtjnash/Pidfile.jl to do hostname/PID-based locking to https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/42405 and https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/42405, because this type of locking is https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/31953.
A successful fix for this issue would identify and integrate a python pidfile implementation which offers the same (tested) guarantees as https://github.com/vtjnash/Pidfile.jl. Further discussion in https://github.com/JuliaPy/pyjuliapkg/pull/45, where FileLock may be used as an interim solution.
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