[Mailman-Developers] New LockFile.py
Ron Jarrell
jarrell@vt.edu
Mon, 01 May 2000 16:03:07 -0400
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At 02:49 PM 5/1/00 -0400, bwarsaw@python.org wrote:
> RJ> 2) Setting mtime in the future will probably piss off fsck;
> RJ> which in environments with multiple systadmins, or the mailman
> RJ> person isn't a sysadmin, could be horribly confusing.
>
>Hmm, hadn't though of that. Hopefully, I've made the termination
>cases sufficiently robust so that those lock files won't hang around
>long enough to get fsck'd.
Unless the machine crashed, which is why you're fscking the file
system :-).
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<font size=3>At 02:49 PM 5/1/00 -0400, bwarsaw@python.org wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite> RJ> 2) Setting mtime in
the future will probably piss off fsck;<br>
RJ> which in environments with multiple systadmins,
or the mailman<br>
RJ> person isn't a sysadmin, could be horribly
confusing.<br>
<br>
Hmm, hadn't though of that. Hopefully, I've made the
termination<br>
cases sufficiently robust so that those lock files won't hang
around<br>
long enough to get fsck'd.</blockquote><br>
Unless the machine crashed, which is why you're fscking the file<br>
system :-).<br>
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