"Fredrick Paul Eisele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am considering using an xml file as a data repository. > I would like to have concurrent processes reading and writing > from the file with something analogous to the record locking > capability of fcntl. > > What would it take to create such an element locking mechanism? > Allow locking on ids only with a separate mechanism to lock those ids? > I am thinking about using an sql table to hold the ids and using that > locking mechanism.
Hey Frederick Paul, If you're going to use a DB anyway, why not just use a DB? Reimplementing relational DB lock semantics in an XML file seems like a castastrophic waste of valuable programmer time. jas. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
