[Bug 3241] New: nfsunlock function required

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http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3241

           Summary: nfsunlock function required
           Product: Spamassassin
           Version: SVN Trunk (Latest Devel Version)
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5
         Component: Libraries
        AssignedTo: spamassassin-dev@incubator.apache.org
        ReportedBy: jm@jmason.org


Alexis Rosen  <alexis at panix.com>  sez:

> >Hey, guys. I'm just following up because I'm curious about the final
> >disposition of the nfslock code. Did you add a function to correspond to
> >nfsunlock? I hope the rest of my comments were helpful.
> 
> Actually, we haven't :(   It dropped off my radar, unfortunately.
> 
> I'm thinking we should take a look at that before 3.0.0 release, and

You *really* should.

> OK, here's the source. It's attached (only ~10k). A few things to think about:
> 
> - Some of the issues involved are *really* subtle. Don't throw out the sleep
> in nfsunlock, for example.
> - The race condition that made me write nfsunlock may seem a virtual
> impossibility, but if you are actually running across NFS, it's not the most
> unlikely thing in the world. All you need is a small network problem at the
> wrong time.
> - nfs{,un}lock4 was written to deal with a bug in netbsd. It had a hideously
> broken nfs client that didn't act atomically even for link(). Nothing you
> can do about that except work around it as best you can. I encourage you to
> NOT use this workaround- it's very expensive, and the problem no longer exists,
> I think. nfstest is a tiny bit of code that can turn up systems with that
> problem. I know of no other Unixes that have that problem.

code at:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-bugs/1996/04/17/0002.html



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