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Grex Test Item 9: pc lock test.
Entered by mdw on Fri Sep 28 11:26:10 UTC 1984:

this is a lock item test (pc).

7 responses total.

#1 of 7 by tnt on Fri Jul 19 05:22:15 1991:

Millions of users are dying to know how this test went!

#2 of 7 by ric on Sat Jul 20 18:56:43 1991:

And Millions more are dying to know what in the world a lock item test
DOES?

#3 of 7 by shannara on Sun Jul 21 21:37:57 1991:

it doesn't lock out our responses...

#4 of 7 by mdw on Mon Jul 22 07:39:59 1991:

The idea was to make sure that two people entering a
response or item "at the same time" wouldn't over-write
each other.  PicoSpan handles this with "locks" -- first
person's copy locks the database, & the second waits
until the lock goes away before it does its stuff.

#5 of 7 by jp2 on Mon Apr 22 19:01:04 2002:

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#6 of 7 by janc on Sat Oct 5 20:28:51 2002:

test

#7 of 7 by janc on Sat Oct 5 20:29:05 2002:

ok

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