Basically, you do not have to use cflock as abundant as we did in pre-mx. You still have to lock when a race condition may occur but your colleague is correct to a degree, cflock is not really required as it will no longer crash the server etc but if a race can occurr you should lock... Ultimately, look at the process and decide for yourself. In some cases, it won't do you any harm to lock (as long as the lock doesn't become a hindrance :-)
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