[SR-Users] cfgutils lock / unlock + $sht() variables.

Hi all,

I use $sht() pseudo-variabled provided by htable module for caching various information about sip customers. I thought that htable has some locking mechanism inside it and today while i was reading core-cookbook i payed attention to one example with the lock/unlock functions and $sht():

lock("calls-to::10.10.10.10"); $sht(a=>calls-to::10.10.10.10) = $sht(a=>calls-to::10.10.10.10) + 1; unlock("calls-to::10.10.10.10");

According to that example an explicit locking mechanism should be used when i want to write something to a hash table. On the other hand there are no locks in htable documentation.

So the question is when do the explicit locks should be used and for what purpose ?