inn-stable on HP/UX

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Jun 7 11:05:26 UTC 2004


Alex Kiernan <alexk at alexk.eng.demon.net> writes:

> 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?

And tdx-util, and nnrpd will acquire a lock if the first time it tries, it
ends up seeing a data file that doesn't match the index file.  That lets
it cleanly wait for expireover if expireover is currently rebuilding that
group.

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