Multi-User non Client/Server database

[Jean-Claude Wippler]

piet at cs.uu.nl wrote:
> 
> >>>>> claird at starbase.neosoft.com (Cameron Laird) (CL) writes:
> CL> You'll want to read the recent MetaKit announcement
> CL> <URL:http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=561017677>. MetaKit
> CL> plays very well with Python, does locking right,
>                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I don't think so, see the following snippet from its mailing list:
> 
>    > Could two apps -- one web server generating web pages from the
>    > database contents, and one e-mail list manager -- share the same
>    > MetaKit datafile?
> 
>    Not if both need modify access.  Today, MK is multi-reader *or*
>    single-writer, no other combination.  In some cases, you can work
>    around this by maintaining a replica.

Those two statements are not mutually-exclusive.
At the file-locking level, locking works fine.

-jcw