From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-08-15T01:45:08+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: How do you use flock and clean up lock files?

On 8/14/06, gwtmp01@mac.com <gwtmp01@mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 14, 2006, at 6:44 AM, Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
> > It's heavyweight, but so what? Nothing is heavier than a process,
> > which is what you're trying to sync in the first place.
>
> Hmm. One of the hallmarks of the Unix philosophy was/is the idea that
> processes are 'cheap'.
>
> I tend to think that people gravitate towards a threading solution a
> little
> too reflexively these days and then get bitten by all sorts of
> concurrency
> issues that can often be avoided via cooperating processes.
>
> The Plan 9 papers offer some interesting insight into the process/thread
> dichotomy.
>
>
> Gary Wright
>
>
>
>
>

Hmm, you were responding to me so I thought I should clarify. One of
the questions upthread was about Windows, not Plan 9. On Unix just use
flock for process sync. On Windows there is a useable cross-process
mutex.

As far as threads are concerned, I bow to no one in my disdain for
them. (But I've been programming threaded apps since Win32 was in
beta, so I think I'm qualified to disdain them.)