locking federated table not possible?

[sebastian mork]

Hi,
is it not possible to lock federated tables (creating a lock on the remote machine to lock the table on the machine containing the data?)

I've a situation where I have some different databases on different servers but they share a small amount of tables that are physically stored on only one machine.
the other (remote) servers use these table as federated tables.

on the server where the data is stored physically in a myIsam-table I can lock the table, insert some data and unlock it.
I've made some tests where I create a write lock, then call 10000 queries to insert some data (when starting these queries I created a new request that tries to insert data) then the first request unlocks the table and the second request runs when the unlock is done. great.
but when I try to run a lock on a federated table it has no effect, I try to lock the table, insert 10000 rows and unlock the table again. but when I'm running a second request while the 10000 rows are inserted the second request doesnt wait for the table to be unlocked, the data is inserted while the first request is made.

here is my request thats starting first: (some pseudo-style code)
---
lock tables tbl_lager write;
do from 1 to 10000
INSERT INTO `tbl_lager` (`fld_pid`) VALUES ('1');
end do
unlock tables;
unlocked at #now()#

and heres the second that starts when the first is running:
---
lock tables tbl_lager write;
INSERT INTO `tbl_lager` (`fld_pid`) VALUES ('1');
unlock tables;
unlocked at #now()#


doing this local ob the server where the data is stored physically it works fine.
but on the federated table it doesn't work.

Any comments would be great. thx.