Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 01/23/06 16:33

Geoff Berrow wrote:
> Message-ID: <cuednQYv09gBwkneRVn-iA@comcast.com> from Jerry Stuckle
> contained the following:
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>>So the system recomputes the balance. If there are sufficient funds in
>>the account, it processes the withdrawal.
>
>
> Isn't a lock required for the very short period of time in between
> recomputing the balance and processing the withdrawal?
>

Yes, but that's a very short time - on a mainframe you're talking
microseconds; milliseconds at the worst.

You can never eliminate all locks. The secret is to minimize the number
and length of the locks.

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