Re: [htmltmpl] bulletinboard

[Joel <htm...@jo...>]

>On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Joel wrote:
>
>The problem I had with Ikonboard was that it didn't do any file
>locking...get two posts simultaneously and they'd stomp all over each
>other. Shades of Matt's WWWBoard.  Of course, that was a couple of
>years ago, so it may have matured since then, and probably has.
>

I think I know what you mean by stomping and given a DBM situation, I can
see that happening. You'd have a problem with the bit of code that gets
the next ID for an incoming post. There's a definite concurrency issue
there if you don't have something intelligent. I do not know if they have
resolved that.=20

Using it with MySQL would eliminate such a problem given that the
database is built to accomodate such a situation. (Insert two rows at the
'same time' and you'll still get two IDs from the database)

=46or the record, we've only ever used it in a database. It just makes
sense.

--Joel

(Let's see if my text wraps properly this time.)