[REBOL] Re: Multiuser database
From: gabriele:colellachiara at: 23-Mar-2006 12:36
Hi SunandaDH,
On Wednesday, March 22, 2006, 10:15:58 PM, you wrote:
Sac> That's true on a single machine. But I think (if I read it right) the
Sac> original poster wanted to lock a resource on an
Sac> application that is running (in
Sac> effect) asynchronously across a number of machines.
File locking on network file system has always been known to be a
big problem, so I'd rule this case out anyway. You need a process
on the server machine to handle serialization; and if you need n
processes on the server machine (i.e. CGI) you can still use the
TCP trick.
Regards,
Gabriele.
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