Re: File Locking to prevent "race condition" question

2024-03-21 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:56:33 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 3/20/24 12:36, Sbob wrote: >> Question: will flock() properly lock a file in a way that incoming >> commands over ssh from multiple other servers will respect the lock? > Yes, the command is still running on the same system. It

Re: File Locking to prevent "race condition" question

2024-03-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/20/24 12:36, Sbob wrote: We have a database failover process in place that leverages a component that will also do load balancing. For reasons due to the client's environment we want n+ (many) of these load balancing components, however this means we will have many failover scripts on

File Locking to prevent "race condition" question

2024-03-20 Thread Sbob
All; We have a database failover process in place that leverages a component that will also do load balancing. For reasons due to the client's environment we want n+ (many) of these load balancing components, however this means we will have many failover scripts on different servers that