May 9, 2000
10:43 a.m.
Well, I figure its finally time for me to ask a stupid question.
Why do people use filesystems for locking? Why not use IPC semaphores instead?
It seems that people are going through extraordinary trouble and grief to get the filesystem locking correct. Like I said - it may be a stupid question, and I'm just not getting something. What is that something?
One of the more reasonable and understandable benefits of using filesystem locking is when the locks are placed in a shared filesystem - a filesystem that is used by multiple machines running Mailman. Is this a common occurrence? -Dan
-- Dan A. Dickey ddickey@wamnet.com