From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-10-25T07:25:19+09:00
Subject: Re: File#flock as a cross-process mutex

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Francis Cianfrocca wrote:

>
> Thanks Ara. Some interesting ideas in there. I don't care for the outboard
> process or thread, but I'll give this a try.
>

i don't either - but it was learnt in the trenches: process hung on nfs aren't
that responsive so it's safest to have an external process.

fyi.

-a
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