Re: How to write a proper fork hook code?

[Samuel Thibault]

Svante Signell, le Mon 02 Mar 2015 11:53:11 +0100, a écrit :
> On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 11:15 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Svante Signell, le Mon 02 Mar 2015 11:03:22 +0100, a écrit :
> > > On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 10:57 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> > > maybe you could help me find where the design flaw is.
> > 
> > That would take time, which I don't have.
> 
> Maybe you should allocate time then

When?

> (or somebody else).

Somebody else which could be you.

> > Yes, and that's still in my mbox, along a lot of other things.  Yes,
> > that sucks and I'm not happy with that, but days are 24h long only.
> 
> Isn't this a better spent time than to try to convince the tdb upstream
> maintainers to accept the whole locking file patch
> (50_partial_file_locking.patch)?

I didn't spend much time on that: that patch is really small and simple,
and I already know how record locking works at the POSIX level, so it's
easy for me.  On the other hand, I don't know how record locking works
in Neal's patch, and not even in the original source code, particularly
in the fork() case, so it would take quite a lot of time to dive into
it.

Samuel