[erlang-questions] Global lock is unfair?

[Michael Truog]

Use a single Erlang process.  It will only be able to handle a single message at a time (other messages will get queued in-order) and the behavior will be fair.


On 05/14/2018 12:55 PM, Ryan Stewart wrote:
> My team has used global:set_lock() to implement a sort of simple mutex system on a set of resources. It turns out that this function seems to have no concept of fairness. One process might request a lock and not get it until 20 other processes have requested and gotten said lock, out of request order. Is there any easy way to do fair locking?
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