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Re:How to do distributed locking (2016) by antirez on Sunday May 14, 2023 @10:27AM (#35938257)
Redlocks don't use anything proabilistic, not in the sense that the lock may fail to guarantee what it promises at random.
Re:How to do distributed locking (2016) by klysm on Sunday May 21, 2023 @03:30AM (#36018735)
While that may be true, it’s generally not possible to use red locks to build a correct system is mutual exclusion is a strict requirement