Fix lockfile() docstring to correctly document the wantnewlockfile behavior.
authorZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:53:26 +0000 (04:53 -0000)
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:53:26 +0000 (04:53 -0000)
Thanks to Arfrever for reporting.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=13355

pym/portage/locks.py

index 05a65644fe806b04f46ecd22c03e32372321c598..c256a5ada36ef780dbc9a4a7094ea5cf25f69526 100644 (file)
@@ -28,8 +28,10 @@ def unlockdir(mylock):
 
 def lockfile(mypath, wantnewlockfile=0, unlinkfile=0,
        waiting_msg=None, flags=0):
-       """Creates all dirs upto, the given dir. Creates a lockfile
-       for the given directory as the file: directoryname+'.portage_lockfile'."""
+       """
+       If wantnewlockfile is True then this creates a lockfile in the parent
+       directory as the file: '.' + basename + '.portage_lockfile'.
+       """
        import fcntl
 
        if not mypath: