On 27.04.2012 11:05, Dan Berindei wrote:

I wasn't thinking of a flag, I was thinking of a withTimeout(timeout)
method on AdvancedCache. There may be other "flags" that could be
customized with a value as well, but then you'd need to keep them in a
map and it could be more trouble than it's worth.

The complication with withTimeout/tryLock OTOH is that as a user I'd
expect it to limit everything, not just the lock acquisition - so it
would have to override sync.replTimeout as well.

Where is the JIRA to vote for? :)

The javadoc for lock says:"false will only be returned if the lock acquisition timed out and the operation has been called with Flag.FAIL_SILENTLY.".
As user I'd assume that when using the mentioned flag and independend what errors happen, the lock will _only_ return false in case of an timeout.

Is the discussed "tryLock" in the end the expected behaviour for lock with FAIL_SILENTLY regarding the javadoc?