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distributed-lock-manager
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The DLM maintains a list of system resources and provides locking mechanisms to control allocation and modification of resources.
The DLM maintains a list of system resources and provides locking mechanisms to control allocation and modification of resources.
npm install -g distributed-lock-manager
dlm-server --httpPort 5000 --tcpPort 5001 --maximumWaitForAcquireInMilliseconds 2000 --timeoutInMiliseconds 5000

This command will try to acquire the lock for the given name and return TRUE<newline> when successfully acquired and FALSE<newline> when not acquired.
acquire <name><newline>
This command will release the lock for the given name and return OK<newline>.
release <name><newline>
This command is exactly the same as the acquire command except that it will wait if it could not acquire the lock immediately.
waitAcquire <name><newline>
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The DLM maintains a list of system resources and provides locking mechanisms to control allocation and modification of resources.
We found that distributed-lock-manager demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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