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| author | Sree Harsha Totakura <totakura@in.tum.de> | 2012-04-25 10:02:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Sree Harsha Totakura <totakura@in.tum.de> | 2012-04-25 10:02:51 +0000 |
| commit | 9c4f5c8f1b481103f871c20bb568ff7d1911cb10 (patch) | |
| tree | 8693254f333fac83b894c73efa161534d2fdcac3 /src/lockmanager | |
| parent | 0b9d917f4c291daae72b20c61b1dbbefe6ea1ce3 (diff) | |
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| 1 | The lockmanager service serves as a global locker for other gnunet | ||
| 2 | programs. This service eliminates the need for programs to maintain their own | ||
| 3 | checks upon a resource which should be protected from concurrent access. | ||
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| 5 | Locking is managed through locking-domains. A locking-domain is a string which | ||
| 6 | uniquely identifies a group of locks. Locks are represented as unsigned | ||
| 7 | integers. When a critical resource has to be protected against simulataneous | ||
| 8 | access by 2 programs. Both of them should connect to the lockmanager using the | ||
| 9 | same locking-domain and try to lock a lock. Since only one of them can acquire | ||
| 10 | the lock the other will be denied locking until the other releases it. \ No newline at end of file | ||