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swarthy / redis-semaphore

Distributed mutex and semaphore based on Redis
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Support for fences #127

Open kibertoad opened 2 years ago

kibertoad commented 2 years ago

See https://martin.kleppmann.com/2016/02/08/how-to-do-distributed-locking.html for the explanation of a problem.

jokester commented 2 weeks ago

How should that get implemented in this library then?

Maybe by issuing a monotonically increasing integer on lock acquisition?