low-end persistence strategies?

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John Lenton:
> the operating system cleans up the lock.

So, are you effectively saying than a custom made solution based on
flock
can be quite reliable and it could be a reasonable choice to use
shelve+flock
for small/hobbysts sites? I always thought locking was a bad beast and
feared
to implement it myself, but maybe I was wrong afterall ...

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