On 4 May 2015, at 8:51pm, Scott Doctor <scott at scottdoctor.com> wrote:

> The issue of locking a file during concurrent access seems to be a major 
> issue, mostly due to the schizophrenic abilities of network file systems. Has 
> the SQLite development team considered embedding its own file locking system 
> logic, such as creating its own lock file to prevent damage from concurrent 
> write access, that does not rely on the network file system?

Read this:

<https://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/mutex_alloc.html>

But it's worth pointing out that all these operations depend on the underlying 
network file system working correctly.  It's not possible for SQLite to do 
locking properly if the operating system or storage medium is lying to it.

Simon.

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