Re: [jgroups-dev] Lock scope

On 12/19/12 8:52 PM, Olexandr Markushyn wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Could you please clarify situation concerning the scope of JGroups Lock
> provided with LockService?
>
> I see that there is only one scope and it’s thread wide.


The scope of locks is per thread, so 2 threads in the same JVM compete 
for the same (named) lock, see [1] for details.


> Am I correct?
>
> If I am then is there any plans to develop Lock with wider scope(s)?
>
> I mean a Lock that could be locked with one thread and unlocked with
> another one.


That is the case today


[1] 
http://www.jgroups.org/manual-3.x/html/user-building-blocks.html#LockService

-- 
Bela Ban, JGroups lead (http://www.jgroups.org)

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