buffindexed, a racing problem?

[Russ Allbery]

Alex Kiernan <alexk at demon.net> writes:

> Different question... could/should we sysdie() on return from
> fcntl(F_SETLKW) if we fail?

> It'd break some people (me in particular), but it looks a lot safer
> since all callers assume it just works.

That's not a bad idea, although I think it would be cleaner to track down
the various users and have them fail properly, since that way the server
will throttle rather than just croak.

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