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		crucini on Jan 19, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Are we overcomplicating software developme... He probably uses flock(2)

zeptomu on Jan 19, 2017 [–]

But isn't that hard to get right? At least if you using something like sqlite you get consistency guarantees.

Consider your process writing to the file and dying during write() - do you recover and repair the file after you reschedule?

aalbertson on Jan 19, 2017 | [–]

Ramdisk maybe?

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