inn-stable on HP/UX

Alex Kiernan alexk at alexk.eng.demon.net
Mon Jun 7 10:38:32 UTC 2004


Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

> Alex Kiernan <alexk at alexk.eng.demon.net> writes:
> 
> > The NFS code wants to go; I thought I had it reliable, but the changes
> > to the tradindexed code broke it, largely because it exposed bugs which
> > existed in the previous tradindexed implementation (in particular you
> > can't mmap and lock a file at the same time on Solaris, which was the
> > only platform I ever tested it on).
> 
> > I'll post a patch (the cvs details I have don't seem to work any more :(
> 
> Does that mean a patch to remove all the NFS code, in that it doesn't work
> at all?

'fraid so.

> That's a shame....  Are there any alternative approaches that might
> work?
> 

If the tradindexed code didn't mmap & lock didn't it might work. One
thought I guess is what code paths is the locking protecting against?
Just innd and expireover?

-- 
Alex Kiernan, Principal Engineer, Development, THUS plc


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