kadmin incremental propagation full resync multiple processes spawned
Tom Yu
tlyu at MIT.EDU
Fri Nov 4 16:40:13 EDT 2011
Greg Hudson <ghudson at MIT.EDU> writes:
> That's a good theory. I don't know if you've been involved in previous
> discussions about our DB2 locking, but since POSIX doesn't provide a way
> to acquire a file lock with a timeout, we just try once a second for
> five seconds, which doesn't provide any kind of fairness guarantee,
> unfortunately.
I think it should be possible to do something using alarm() to provide
timeouts for lock acquisition, but that wouldn't work well inside a
library.
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