global lock

[Roberto Ostinelli]

Ok, so indeed the flag I was referring to seems to be a necessity.
Thank you,
r.

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 5:21 PM Paul Peregud <paulperegud@REDACTED> wrote:

> > global:trans/4 allows to set the number of retries, so one approach
> could be to set retries to 0 so *if* my understanding is correct, only 1
> node would do the conflict resolution (the one that grabs the lock). If
> some kind soul can confirm that this is correct, thank you in advance. :)
>
> That's not enough. Alice may detect the issue, grab the lock, resolve
> the issue and release the lock before Bob receives the signal and
> attempts to grab the lock. You need some kind of ConflictId ->
> resolved :: boolean() mapping.
>
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