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Re:Show HN: Lockable – sync locks for distributed systems by keyless_ on Saturday June 18, 2022 @08:05AM (#31789120)
Unfortunately, you do need _some_ sort of TTL because there is no way for the lockable server to know when a remote process has simply died.

However, TTLs can be set to be arbitrarily long (e.g. multiple days), which means, in practice, you can avoid losing locks due to networking issues.

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Re:Show HN: Lockable – sync locks for distributed systems by IanCal on Saturday June 18, 2022 @09:31AM (#31789652)
You can instead have manual overrides. Not seeing a lock means that at least a person has decided it's safe to run Vs something simply have taken too long to respond.
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Re:Show HN: Lockable – sync locks for distributed systems by GordonS on Saturday June 18, 2022 @10:21AM (#31790036)
If TTLs can be arbitrary lengths, wouldn't setting them to high values (a week, month, year, whatever) allow you to implement whatever manual override mechanism you wanted?
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