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Michael
Michael

Reputation: 1813

Named CFLOCK applied across whole application?

Please can somebody tell me whether named locks apply across the session, application or server?

I have been looking at the documentation and have only managed to confuse myself further.

What I want to be able to do is to name a lock dynamically (based on a user ID for instance) and have this lock apply application wide. I do not want to lock the whole application scope because this would be overkill.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 74

Answers (1)

Adam Cameron
Adam Cameron

Reputation: 29870

The apply to the entire CF instance, which isn't quite what it says in the docs ("CFLOCK"):

Lock names are global to a ColdFusion server.

The difference between reality and what the docs say is that there can be more than one CF instance running on a given server; locks in instance A will not exist as far as instance B is concerned.

Upvotes: 4

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