AcquireReadLock tries to acquire a shared lock to read from the file and returns a lock object or an error accordingly.

AcquireWriteLock tries to acquire a shared lock to write from the file and returns a lock object or an error accordingly.

FlockFile returns the flock filename for a given file name it returns an empty string if the input is empty.

ReleaseLock releases a lock from a file that was previously created by AcquireReadLock or AcquireWriteLock.

SetLockCycleDurationFactor configures the factor applied to the timeout allowed during a lock cycle.

SetMaxLockCycles configures the maximum amount of lock cycles.

LockFileSuffix to use for lock files.

ErrAcquireLockFailed indicates that it was not possible to lock the resource.

ErrPathEmpty indicates that no path was specified.