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Why Craig uses flock() instead of rlock()
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25/06/1999 12:39:49
 
 
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24/06/1999 08:32:28
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00233393
Message ID:
00234023
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>>I looked primary key generation routine from Craig website and
>>found that it uses flock() instead on rlock()
>>
>>This causes several perfomance slowdown if there are many
>>different primary keys required concurrently.
>>
>>In code comment there is a note that there are problems using
>>rlock().
>>
>>Can anybody give me information against using rlock()
>>to lock record in a table used for sequential
>>primary key generation ?
>
>I found that there was contention at times on the keys table when using RLOCK, so I changed it and my problems went away.

I don't know any fox framework or program which uses flock().
All they use rlock() with key table.
Have you discovered an undocumented rlock() bug not noticed by any others?
Andrus
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