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<p>A <b>distributed lock manager</b> (<b>DLM</b>) runs in every machine in a cluster, with an identical copy of a cluster-wide lock database. <a href="page.php?w=Operating_system">Operating system</a>s use lock managers to organise and serialise the access to resources. In this way a DLM provides <a href="page.php?w=software_application">software application</a>s which are <a href="page.php?w=distributed_programming">distributed</a> across a cluster on multiple machines with a means to synchronize their accesses to <a href="page.php?w=shared_resource">shared resource</a>s.</p><p>
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