# How to lock a file?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-lock-a-file/7735>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [December 13, 2017, 10:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-lock-a-file/7735 "2017-12-13T10:35:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![jw3126](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jw3126/32/3086_2.png) [@jw3126](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jw3126)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 10:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-lock-a-file/7735/1 "2017-12-13T10:35:08Z")

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How to lock a file from julia? This came up [here](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/disk-backed-dict/7719/5).