flock() is not working in Mono/Linux

[Christopher Pereira]

Mono is not supporting a way to lock files for Linux:
http://mono.1490590.n4.nabble.com/Equivalent-to-LockFileEx-on-Linux-td1575660.html

Any idea to solve or workaround this problem?

Most of the times flock() is used when we need to prevent really bad things to happen.

[Jakub Míšek]

any cross-platform .NET api for that ?

[Christopher Pereira]

Sure, maybe https://github.com/sjmelia/flock

[Jakub Míšek]

sjmelia/flock uses pinvoke and linux/win32 only ... we would need a nuget package targeting netstandard1.5 and net46

[Christopher Pereira]

See: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Flock