[REBOL] Re: Multiuser database
From: gabriele:colellachiara at: 21-Mar-2006 16:37
Hi Petr,
On Tuesday, March 21, 2006, 12:17:25 PM, you wrote:
PK> uh, that all sounds crazy and because of what? Because unix can't
PK> guarantee you file-lock if you particularly ask for it? What a weak
PK> system ....
Unix gives you a lock if you ask about a lock. But if you don't,
then it doesn't - it's that simple.
Locking is not a trivial issue, and that's why OS' provide
semaphores and things like that natively.
The best solution is always to have a single-threaded process
providing serialized access to the given resource. When you can't
do that, you are forced to deal with troubles.
A good solution that hasn't been mentioned so far is to use a TCP
listen port as the lock. Two processes are (or at least should
not) never allowed to listen to the same port.
Regards,
Gabriele.
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