I don&#x27;t address what you do when the mutual exclusion is violated, because I show how a different token for each lock is good enough to avoid the races that Martin worries about, but at the same time I&#x27;m deeply skeptical in real-world use cases you often have this luxury. Very very often distributed locks are used when you need the lock as the <i>sole</i> way to avoid race conditions, so IMHO is a purely theoretical arguments for most people that are going to use Redlock. When you can use the token, use it, and even consider of not using the distributed lock at all if not to gain performances by avoiding race conditions all the times you can.