Jan Peter Stotz wrote: > Hi Lucene users, > > at the moment I have some problems with the locking mechanism of > IndexWriter. Some times my application quits/terminates before I can close > the IndexWriter. Then the "write.lock" file remains and prohibits every > write access to my index. Of course I could simply unlock the directory > with the index but from the description of the unlock mechanism I read out > that it does not check if some other process still holds the lock and > therefore concurrent writes from multiple process may occur. > > Is the locking mechanism really so "dumb"? > If yes - why does Lucene not use a more intelligent approach, e.g. the one > via RandomAccessFile as it is presented here: > > http://jimlife.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/java-application-make-sure-only-singleone-instance-running-with-file-lock-ampampampampamp-shutdownhook/ > > Ciao, Jan > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > Have you tried using a native lock factory?
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