Multi-User non Client/Server database

[Cameron Laird]

In article <3862473B.E8133933 at equi4.com>,
Jean-Claude Wippler  <jcw at equi4.com> wrote:
>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

There's a general-purpose need in our domain for labels to distinguish
  You can't do X; the system will block,
  and only permit you to do X', which of
  course is safe.
and
  You can't do X; the system's behavior
  is undefined in that circumstance, and
  probably hazardous.
-- 

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