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Method, system and program products for concurrently accessing a global data repository by multithreaded clients

  • US 6,965,892 B1
  • Filed: 05/31/2000
  • Issued: 11/15/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of managing locking of resources of a global data repository of a distributed computing environment, said method comprising:

  • issuing a request, via a thread of a multithreaded client application of said distributed computing environment, for a lock of a resource associated with a server data tree of said global data repository; and

    obtaining said lock for said multithreaded client application, said lock being independent of a threading model of the requesting thread of the multithreaded client application of said distributed computing environment,wherein said obtaining comprises employing a local tree in obtaining said lock, said local tree being local to the client application and having a mount point usable by the client application to lock said resource via the server data tree, said local tree comprising a data tree accessible by a plurality of threads of the multithreaded client application, and wherein said resource is further lockable via another mount point of one of said local tree and another local tree.

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