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Eric J.12
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10 years ago
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Ways to Prevent "failed to grab lock" Error

Is there a way to check if there are running processes given the user's account? I don't want to get any errors related to concurrency or locks, so I was thinking of polling the account until there a...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    10 years ago
    No, there's nothing quite like that. You should make sure your app is able to handle lock contention errors like this, since they can occur at any time.
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago
No, there's nothing quite like that. You should make sure your app is able to handle lock contention errors like this, since they can occur at any time.

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