PCT: Lock and Simultaneous Access

When using PCT, how can you enforce synchronous access to resources? Eg lock in C#.

I have some code,

parameters = [1 2 3 4];
my_files = getListOfFiles();
parfor i = 1 :I
   myFunc(my_files, parameters);
end

and

function myFunc(my_files, p)
for j = 1: length(myFiles)
  data = load(myFiles(j));
  runFunction(data, p);
  delete(data);
end
end

So in summary this code runs in a parfor loop and accesses files and works on them. The problem is that different parfor loops may want to access the same myFiles(j) at the same time. This means the resource is locked by the system, meaning a fatal error.

The error messages look like:

Would you like to replace the existing file D:\data\1.mat 
15481315 bytes, modified on 23-11-2014 10:28 
with a new one 
15481315 bytes, modified on 21-11-2014 07:53 

The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

When this happens I would like to matlab wait to access the resource until it becomes free. How can i do this? My only thoughts on this are, but I think there must be a more sensible way,

function myFunc(my_files, p)
for j = 1: length(myFiles)
  if(~exist(myFiles(j), 'file' == 2))
      load(myFiles(j));
  end
  runFunction(data, p);
  while exist(myFiles(j), 'file' == 2)
      delete(myFiles(j));
  end
end
end

Though when I try the above, I get at the load() call:

Unable to read MAT-file D:\folder\file.mat

File may be corrupt.

I am using 2014A. thanks

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