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Salgat on July 29, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Redis

RedLock automatically releases a lock after a given timeout. The server can just release it early or refresh it also.

cbzoiav on July 30, 2023 [–]

Yes, which is what I said.

But now you have a released lock and a client that thinks they have the lock.

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