co-lock

Asynchronous resources, generator style. Finally, Javascript has deadlocks!

Install

$ npm install co-lock

Usage

var release = yield lock(target);
// critical section
yield release;

API

lock(target[, timeout])

Creates a lock on target, yields with release when the lock can be acquired. If cannot acquire lock within timeout, throws error.

Yielding release gives control to the next thread in the lock's queue.

License

MIT