Attempts to acquire a lock on the given region of this channel's file.

This method does not block. An invocation always returns immediately, either having acquired a lock on the requested region or having failed to do so. If it fails to acquire a lock because an overlapping lock is held by another program then it returns null. If it fails to acquire a lock for any other reason then an appropriate exception is thrown.

The region specified by the position and size parameters need not be contained within, or even overlap, the actual underlying file. Lock regions are fixed in size; if a locked region initially contains the end of the file and the file grows beyond the region then the new portion of the file will not be covered by the lock. If a file is expected to grow in size and a lock on the entire file is required then a region starting at zero, and no smaller than the expected maximum size of the file, should be locked. The zero-argument tryLock() method simply locks a region of size Long.MAX_VALUE.

Some operating systems do not support shared locks, in which case a request for a shared lock is automatically converted into a request for an exclusive lock. Whether the newly-acquired lock is shared or exclusive may be tested by invoking the resulting lock object's isShared method.

File locks are held on behalf of the entire Java virtual machine. They are not suitable for controlling access to a file by multiple threads within the same virtual machine.

Parameters:

position     The position at which the locked region is to start; must be non-negative

size     The size of the locked region; must be non-negative, and the sum position + size must be non-negative

shared     true to request a shared lock, false to request an exclusive lock

Returns: A lock object representing the newly-acquired lock, or null if the lock could not be acquired because another program holds an overlapping lock

Exceptions:

IllegalArgumentException     If the preconditions on the parameters do not hold

ClosedChannelException     If this channel is closed

OverlappingFileLockException     If a lock that overlaps the requested region is already held by this Java virtual machine, or if another thread is already blocked in this method and is attempting to lock an overlapping region of the same file

IOException     If some other I/O error occurs

`position`		The position at which the locked region is to start; must be non-negative
`size`		The size of the locked region; must be non-negative, and the sum `position` + `size` must be non-negative
`shared`		`true` to request a shared lock, `false` to request an exclusive lock

`IllegalArgumentException`		If the preconditions on the parameters do not hold
`ClosedChannelException`		If this channel is closed
`OverlappingFileLockException`		If a lock that overlaps the requested region is already held by this Java virtual machine, or if another thread is already blocked in this method and is attempting to lock an overlapping region of the same file
`IOException`		If some other I/O error occurs