Actually, you only need to use cflock around shared variable scopes to prevent race conditions as the underlying data structures are already synchronized at a very low level. See my weblog post here:
http://markme.com/cantrell/weblog/index.cfm?m=2&d=6&y=2003 Christian On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 03:36 PM, Ryan wrote: > Scott, > > Basically, use cflock around anything to do with application, server, > or > session variables. When you set one of those variables, set the type > to > "exclusive". When you read one, use a "readonly" lock. See below: > > <cflock type="exclusive" scope="session" timeout="5"> > <cfset session.test = 1> > </cflock> > > <cflock type="readonly" scope="session" timeout="5"> > <cfset request.test = duplicate(session.test)> > </cflock> > > Now you can use "request.test" for the rest of your page without > locking and > unlocking everytime you need it. > > Hope that helps, > > Ryan > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott Wilhelm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 2:17 PM > Subject: CFLOCK > > >> Can someone please explain to me, in very simply terms, what CFLOCK >> does, and why/when/where I should use it? >> >> I'm trying to build an application, and put it together as proper as >> can >> be, but for some reason, my brain doesn't want to comprehen CFLOCK. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Scott >> >> >> Scott Wilhelm >> Computer Technician/Web Developer >> St. Lawrence-Lewis BOCES >> PO Box 231, Outer State Street >> Canton, NY 13617 >> >> P. 315-386-4504 x 164 >> F. 315-386-3395 >> W. http://www.sllboces.org >> E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
