Dave,
Forgive my stupidity, but once I lock the session.cart, I shouldnt have to
lock every reference to it. correct?
Doug
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Watts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:36 AM
Subject: RE: Do I need to lock this?
> > I was wondering if I need to lock this, I have locking enabled in my
> > application.cfm for sessions?
> >
> > <CFSCRIPT>
> >
> > if (not(isDefined("session.cart"))){
> > session.cart = structNew();
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "hav[ing] locking enabled in ...
> application.cfm for sessions", but the short answer is, yes, you need to
> lock any write to a session variable, unless you've enabled
single-threaded
> sessions in the CF Administrator (which has its own problems, as mentioned
> here last week or so). If you don't have automatic read locking enabled in
> CF Administrator, you'll need to lock all reads as well - which is what I
> recommend. Basically, if you have the word "Session" in your code, I'd
> recommend that you have that in a CFLOCK.
>
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> http://www.figleaf.com/
> voice: (202) 797-5496
> fax: (202) 797-5444
>
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