From: Paul Brannan <paul@...>
Date: 2001-12-13T03:55:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28363] Re: CGI::Session::FileStore and flock problem

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 03:39:41AM +0900, Michael Witrant wrote:
> 3. flock isn't thread safe ([ruby-talk:16818]) and I think mod_ruby uses
> threads to handle multiple requests. Could this be a problem?

flock is also not safe to use over nfs.  It should be avoided whenever
possible in favor of fcntl.

Paul