David Smith
I’m assuming nobody following me uses NSDistributedLock; if there is, cut it out. I think it’s not deprecated ‘cause we forgot it existed.
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@Catfish_Man What else would you suggest when there are multiple processes accessing the same file?
Michael Tsai
.@mjtsai in ascending order of squickiness:
• a database
• have one process use XPC to talk to a single writer
• defaults
• flock()
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@Catfish_Man Those aren't near as convenient as distributed locks with a network filesystem, but I guess that's not common these days. - View other replies
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@mjtsai NSDistributedLock is a mkdir() spinlock. It’s prone to orphaned locks, doesn’t support donation, and is slow :/ - View other replies
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@Catfish_Man I'm not using it, and it's pretty clear it would have limitations like that. But seems like a reasonable LCD option to have…
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@Catfish_Man@mjtsai dude!!! NSFileCoordinator v_v’ - View other replies
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@millenomi@Catfish_Man@atomicbird The very first sentence of the NSFileCoordinator documentation says it's for within the same process. - View other replies
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@mjtsai@millenomi@atomicbird that’s weird… It’s not.
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@catfish_man@mjtsai No love for NSFileCoordinator?
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Tom Harrington
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