Tuesday, March 22, 2016

[rblzlerf] Global semaphore

Create a website that provides mutexes, locks, or semaphores to clients.  Interacting clients know the shared name of a lock.  This should be easy; back it with a database that provides atomic operations.  High latency is acceptable for some applications.

Perhaps provide a service of clearing locks that have been held longer than a specified time interval.

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