On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Darin Fisher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darin@chromium.org">darin@chromium.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div>I think there are good applications for setting a long-lived lock. We can try to make it hard for people to create those locks, but then the end result will be suboptimal. They'll still find a way to build them.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br>One use case is selecting a master instance of an app. I haven't really been following the "global script" thread, but doesn't that address this use case in a more direct way?<br>
<br>What other use-cases for long-lived locks are there?<br></div><br></div>Rob<br>-- <br>"He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." [Isaiah 53:5-6]<br>