[Melbourne-pm] An article on session storage in perl weekly newsletter

[Toby Corkindale]

On 18/02/14 14:22, Tim Connors wrote:
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> (I still don't get the point of databases.  perl storables were always
> good enough for me and my tens of millions of objects in galaxy simulations)

How did you manage multiple processes simultaneously wanting access to 
update different parts of the same file?

How did you handle cases where you wanted a process to guarantee that 
either all of none of its changes were stored, but never some? (Whilst 
still allowing simultaneous access by multiple processes)