[Zope] Clarify Locking

[Alberto Berti]

Ron Baum wrote:

> To clarify my use of the locking.
> 
> We have an ordering system that all the sales people have access to.  I am
> trying to prevent Sales Person #1 from opening an order looking at it...Sales
> Person #2 opening the same order and making a change...Sales Person #1 saves
> his/her changes and overwrites Sales Person #2's changes.
> 
> In addition this system uses legacy data which is in FoxPro free tables (this is
> not my choice).
> 
> Hope this clarifies my question.

> 

Yew, this clarifies your question. If  you can't  handle the lock at 
database level as in FoxPro tables, the solution that i figure out could 
be a shared object between all the users. Something like a thread 
semaphore in thread programming. I'll do some investigation on that

hope this helps

azazel