YALT: when to lock in CFMX

2004-03-10 Thread Conan Saunders
I apologize in advance if this has already been hashed and rehashed... In the Web Application Construction Kit for CFMX, it says: Previous versions of CF required you to use locks far more frequently, even when there wasn't a race condition issue at hand. Basically, you needed to lock every

RE: YALT: when to lock in CFMX

2004-03-10 Thread Peter Tilbrook
2004 8:09 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: YALT: when to lock in CFMX I apologize in advance if this has already been hashed and rehashed... In the Web Application Construction Kit for CFMX, it says: Previous versions of CF required you to use locks far more frequently, even when there wasn't a race

RE: YALT: when to lock in CFMX

2004-03-10 Thread Reed Powell
I think that the last quote you show is a holdover from the old pre-MX documentation.I asked this exact question to Ben F at the last Devcon prior to MX's initial release (I guess that would be 3 cons ago), and his unequivocal response was in agreement with the first 2 quotes you listed - much to

RE: YALT: when to lock in CFMX

2004-03-10 Thread Barney Boisvert
-Original Message- From: Conan Saunders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 1:09 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: YALT: when to lock in CFMX I apologize in advance if this has already been hashed and rehashed... In the Web Application Construction Kit for CFMX, it says

RE: YALT: when to lock in CFMX

2004-03-10 Thread Conan Saunders
I sent this a couple hours ago and haven't seen it show up on the list yet, so I'm sending again. Thanks Barney, Peter, and Reed for your responses. After reading Barney's article, I still have one more question. When you have a race condition on unlocked shared memory variables, what are

RE: YALT: when to lock in CFMX

2004-03-10 Thread Barney Boisvert
), not in CF or your application. Cheers, barneyb -Original Message- From: Conan Saunders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 3:05 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: YALT: when to lock in CFMX I sent this a couple hours ago and haven't seen it show up on the list yet