Re: File locking on EmbperlObject::Execute

2002-06-05 Thread Gavin Carr
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 11:20:15AM +0200, Gerald Richter - ecos gmbh wrote: > > Yeah that handles atomic writes, but not proper atomic updates - read > > data, modify, write, avoiding the race condition between the read and > > the write. I think that requires proper locking? > > If you only have

What is best ApacheSessionX locking mechanism

2002-06-05 Thread Scott Chapman
I'm presented with a BUNCH of locking mechanisms when installing Apache::SessionX. I'd like to know a couple things that will be helpful! 1) What exactly are we locking with Apache::SessionX? As I understand it, sessions are handled via cookies so we are not actually locking anything but cre

Re: File locking on EmbperlObject::Execute

2002-06-05 Thread Gerald Richter - ecos gmbh
> > Yeah that handles atomic writes, but not proper atomic updates - read > data, modify, write, avoiding the race condition between the read and > the write. I think that requires proper locking? > If you only have concurrent reads, it should work. If you also have concurrent writes/updates, the