/*
* Eoulsan development code
*
* This code may be freely distributed and modified under the
* terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 or
* later and CeCILL-C. This should be distributed with the code.
* If you do not have a copy, see:
*
* http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.txt
* http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL-C_V1-en.txt
*
* Copyright for this code is held jointly by the Genomic platform
* of the Institut de Biologie de l'École normale supérieure and
* the individual authors. These should be listed in @author doc
* comments.
*
* For more information on the Eoulsan project and its aims,
* or to join the Eoulsan Google group, visit the home page
* at:
*
* http://outils.genomique.biologie.ens.fr/eoulsan
*
*/
package fr.ens.biologie.genomique.eoulsan.util.locker;
import java.io.IOException;
/**
* This interface define an interface for the global execution locker.
* @since 1.1
* @author Laurent Jourdren
*/
public interface Locker {
/**
* Wait the token and then lock the resource.
* @throws IOException if an error occurs while locking the resource
*/
void lock() throws IOException;
/**
* Unlock the resource.
* @throws IOException if an error occurs while unlocking the resource
*/
void unlock() throws IOException;
}