We shouldn't rely solely on this (we'll still have a busy wait loop with timeouts), but this can allow us to wake up immediately whenever the lock file is deleted. With this we can have longer back-off times as well.
Potentially this would be a way to build an efficient Semaphore too.
We shouldn't rely solely on this (we'll still have a busy wait loop with timeouts), but this can allow us to wake up immediately whenever the lock file is deleted. With this we can have longer back-off times as well.
Potentially this would be a way to build an efficient
Semaphore
too.