[drupal-devel] LOCK vs. SELECT FOR UPDATE

[Richard Archer]

At 5:26 PM +0200 27/9/05, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:

>until now we've largely ignored people who aren't allowed to lock their
>tables and thus cannot use Drupal.

Once upon a time I wrote some code which simulates table locks
using a semaphore system. It's in here if anyone's interested:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/phplib/php-lib-stable/php/db_odbc.inc

 ...R.