On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Stefan de Konink<[email protected]> wrote: > For a webserver plugin I am looking for something so trivial that I > wonder why such check doesn't exist. I would like to know if a > specific key is in use. I don't want to write into memcached, and I > don't want alter data to check if the key is present. This could could > call a race condition.
Can you explain what you want to use the key check for? I can't see any use for a key check, as it may expire between checking for the key, and whatever you want to do with the key, and produce a race condition. David
