Syncronizing CGI Scripts

[Thomas Guettler]

On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 17:15:19 +0200, Changjune Kim wrote:


> "Thomas Guettler" <pan-newsreader at thomas-guettler.de> wrote in message
> news:pan.2002.08.26.08.44.31.203979.727 at thomas-guettler.de...
>> Hi!
>>
>> How can I syncronize CGI scripts?
>>
>> A data-file containing pickled data should be updated
>>
>>  thomas
> 
> You need a locking scheme such as lock file or file locking.
> 
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Couldn't mutexes be used? 


> Of course, you can use a RDBMS such as mysql, or embeded DBMS such as
> sqlite, gadfly, zodb(with zeo), or bsddb3, which comes with locking ...

I want it to be as simple as possible. I try to avoid non standard
modules

 thomas