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            <h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="lock_nondb"></a>Locking and non-Berkeley DB applications</h2>
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      <p>The Lock subsystem is useful outside the context of Berkeley DB.  It can be
used to manage concurrent access to any collection of either ephemeral
or persistent objects.  That is, the lock region can persist across
invocations of an 