Tech Note 2
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InterProcessMutex acquire() can be used to return immediately if lock can't be acquired. |
Details
It's not obvious from the docs, but calling InterProcessMutex.acquire(0, unit) will return immediately (i.e. without any waiting) if the lock cannot be acquired.
e.g.
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InterProcessMutex lock = ... boolean didLock = lock.acquire(0, TimeUnit.any); if ( !didLock ) { // comes back immediately } |