On Oct 29, 2003, at 19:08, Ronald Muller wrote:


What is the advantage of using a FileLock object instead of the way Lucene
does it? (I do not see it)

Less code. Less worries.


Also note an mportant limitation:
"File locks are held on behalf of the entire Java virtual machine. They are
not suitable for controlling access to a file by multiple threads within the
same virtual machine."

Perhaps. Have you used it? Any practical experience with it? For or against?


Cheers,

PA.


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