[Mailman-Developers] Any known issues with list locking?

Barry Warsaw barry at list.org
Wed May 14 03:49:56 CEST 2008


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On May 13, 2008, at 9:14 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>
> I've looked over the code and I can't see anywhere where list data are
> manipulated without being locked, and besides calling the Save()
> method on an unlocked list throws an exception and locking a list
> refreshes current data from config.pck, so it should not be possible
> for two processes to be updating the list concurrently unless there is
> some issue in LockFile itself.
>
> There's nothing in Mailman's locks log, and grep of all the system  
> logs
> for 'listname.lock' finds nothing either.
>
> Has anyone seen anything like this?

Mark, I'm not aware of any bugs like this.

- -Barry

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