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How concurrent is that? Can't imagine how writing to the file is even achieved.
by cntlzw 9y ago
How concurrent is that? Can't imagine how writing to the file is even achieved.
- shoo 9y agomaybe there is an email thread shared between all clients for acquiring / releasing the write lock on the xml file
- K-Wall 9y agoSemaphore as a service Slack Chat bot.
- noir_lord 9y agoSeen that. Shared drive with excel files, people would shout at each other to 'release the lock'
- zimpenfish 9y agoYeah, first real job had the customer database as a VB frontend onto an Access file shared over {whatever Win95 was using in 1996-97}. After a few snafus, the CS / Sales people learned that they had to single-task with the database.
- zimpenfish 9y ago"Badly". At least once a week someone managed to overwrite a change another client had just made. When I left, they were running a cron to copy it every minute as a "quick restore" when it happened.