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Would any old lock work? (Score:1)

by phillup (4419) on 2008.05.22 18:58 (#63002) Homepage Journal

I probably should not even admit in public that I did/do this.

But...

I build web apps that sometimes need "locking", and the app may actually be running on multiple machines between requests. (or even at the same time)

So...

I use this [mysql.com]. (figured they already solved the locking problem... I might as well use it)

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