inn-stable on HP/UX

[Alex Kiernan]

Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

> 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.

So you'd have:

writer: innd, expireover, tdx-util

reader: nnrpd

Short of introducing a separate file you lock on per group I can't
think how to make it work.

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