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Everything you never wanted to know about file locking (2010)

7 points by SmartHypercube

by pseudohadamard

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Another good read is the SQLite locking module, https://www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/0240c5b547b4cf585c8cac35..., since these guys have to deal with the insanity of locking across different systems in real life.
You know things are bad when the least awful implementation of OS-level locking is the one from Microsoft.

by Number-Six

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