Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (148 mails)

[Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@xxxxxxx>]

Dňa Thursday 27 March 2008 17:40:39 Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett ste napísal:
> Hi guys, I had this in my queue since Easter. to make it short, our
> current global lock sucks, and it will suck more when we get packagekit,
> zypper and yast running at the same time :-)
>
> My prototype has passed the two initial test cases.
>
> The idea is a scoped object, that is, to make it work you create it, and
> once it is out of scope, it releases the lock.
>
> Locks are by name. And you can create writer or readers mutex for a
> named region. The name you give to the mutex will determine which region
> it will protect, and if you are entering it as reader or writer, and the
> behavior: wait until free, wait with timeout, or abort if locked.

We will need a list of pre-defined locks to avoid typos in names leading to 
races.

Good stuff!

Stano
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