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-<h1 align=center>Locking and non-Berkeley DB applications</h1>
-<p>The locking subsystem is useful outside the context of Berkeley DB. It can be
-used to manage concurrent access to any collection of either ephemeral or
-persistent objects. That is, the lock region can persist across
-invocations of an application, so it can be used to provide long-term
-locking (e.g., conference room scheduling).
-<p>In order to use the locking subsystem in such a general way, the
-applications must adhere to a convention for naming objects and lockers.
-Consider the conference room scheduling problem described above. Assume
-there are three conference rooms and that we wish to schedule them in
-half-hour intervals.
-<p>The scheduling application must then select a way to identify each
-conference room/time slot combination. In this case, we could describe
-the objects being locker as bytestrings consisting of the conference room
-name, the date on which it is needed, and the beginning of the appropriate
-half-hour slot.
-<p>Lockers are 32-bit numbers, so we might choose to use the User ID of the
-individual running the scheduling program. To schedule half-hour slots,
-all the application need do is issue a <a href="../../api_c/lock_get.html">lock_get</a> call for the
-appropriate locker/object pair. To schedule a longer slot, the
-application would issue a <a href="../../api_c/lock_vec.html">lock_vec</a> call with one <a href="../../api_c/lock_get.html">lock_get</a>
-operation per half-hour up to the total length. If the <a href="../../api_c/lock_vec.html">lock_vec</a>
-call fails, the application would have to release the parts of the time
-slot that were obtained.
-<p>To cancel a reservation, the application would make the appropriate
-<a href="../../api_c/lock_put.html">lock_put</a> calls. To reschedule a reservation, the <a href="../../api_c/lock_get.html">lock_get</a>
-and <a href="../../api_c/lock_put.html">lock_put</a> calls could all be made inside of a single
-<a href="../../api_c/lock_vec.html">lock_vec</a> call. The output of <a href="../../api_c/lock_stat.html">lock_stat</a> could be
-post-processed into a human-readable schedule of conference room use.
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