Re: Lock example

2010-09-13 Thread Tim Robertson
Thanks Mahadev, It's good for this confirmation as this is what I ended up doing. On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Mahadev Konar wrote: > Hi Tim, >  The lock recipe you mention is supposed to avoid her affect and prevent > starvation (though it has bugs :)). >  Are you looking for something l

Re: Lock example

2010-09-13 Thread Mahadev Konar
Hi Tim, The lock recipe you mention is supposed to avoid her affect and prevent starvation (though it has bugs :)). Are you looking for something like that or just a simple lock and unlock that doesn't have to worry abt the above issues. If that's the case then just doing an ephemeral create an

Lock example

2010-09-08 Thread Tim Robertson
Hi all, I am new to ZK and using the queue and lock examples that come with zookeeper but have run into ZOOKEEPER-645 with the lock. I have several JVMs each keeping a long running ZK client and the first JVM (and hence client) does not respect the locks obtained by subsequent clients - e.g. the f