ext_8180 ([identity profile] cattitude.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] mneme 2009-04-04 12:35 am (UTC)

Distributed locking is always inefficient; in high-level languages (like perl) it's unusably inefficient. If you need distributed locking, get a distributed database engine and let it do the locking for you. Call it using the usual perl/database bindings.
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