On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Joshua Chamas wrote:
> > This sounds interesting, but I don't quite understand what you did. The
> > sessions are stored in a dbm file, right? Don't you still need locking if
> > all servers are trying to update the same NFS-mounted dbm file? Or am I
> > totally off on how session storage is implemented?
> >
>
> You might worry about this for concurrent writes to $Application,
> or a framed application writing to $Session, so these are still
> issues to worry about.
Okay, so I take it each user session is stored in a separate dbm file?
Then you still need reliable locking to prevent lost updates, but in
practice $Session collisions are unlikely due to the separate files.
Thanks for the explanation.
- Perrin
