rnews: batch naming and locking
Alex Kiernan
alexk at demon.net
Tue Oct 22 16:41:25 UTC 2002
Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels at cistron.nl> writes:
> According to Miquel van Smoorenburg:
> > The patch is not completely working though. The fixes are correct,
> > but the locking still has a race condition.
> > This is caused by the *stupid* POSIX fcntl() locking rules.
>
> .. and here is the fix for that. We simply open the spool file
> twice, and use one fd for locking only.
>
Ta, applied.
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Alex Kiernan, Principal Engineer, Development, THUS plc
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