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Re: Atomic file locking update
From: |
Svante Signell |
Subject: |
Re: Atomic file locking update |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Nov 2014 13:49:53 +0100 |
On Thu, 2014-11-27 at 13:20 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Justus Winter, le Thu 27 Nov 2014 12:51:56 +0100, a écrit :
> > Just to be sure I understand the change correctly, the downgrade is
> > somewhat trivial, right?
>
> Yes, we just have to notify potential writers.
>
> > Because your patch has an explicit 'tell
> > others we are upgrading' and my symmetry-sense is tingling.
>
> Yes, upgrading is hard and we want to avoid new readers keeping blocking
> it.
As discussed on #debian-hurd IRC, these changes are conflicting with the
record file locking patches. When you upgrade Hurd again, I need to
rebase these patches another time. Maybe we should keep your patches and
forget about record file locking?
As written on IRC the record lock patched hurd/glibc does not play well
with tdbtorture. On the other hand, I've been running at least 5 VMs
with these patches since August without problems. Of course these
patches ar not up to GCS standards, so let's forget about the whole
issue. I continue to rebase and apply them privately for every hurd/libc
release to come.