Re: Win32 Tests -- locks-test

On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 09:21 -0600, D.J. Heap wrote:
[snip]
> It seems like allowing the same process to re-lock could be bad for
> threaded programs like svnserve/mod_dav_svn, but maybe threads count as
> different processes on Unix?
>
> BDB obviously does not fail because it doesn't do locking this way, but
> what does 'exclusive repo write lock' mean to it?
>
> DJ

I checked the docs for apr_file_lock:

"Establish a lock on the specified, open file. The lock may be advisory
or mandatory, at the discretion of the platform. The lock applies to the
file as a whole, rather than a specific range. Locks are established on
a per-thread/process basis; a second lock by the same thread will not
block."

This is not how it behaves on Win32 with the way it uses LockFileEx.

So, this appears to be an apr problem on Win32. I will investigate how
to make apr behave as documented on Win32, but probably Subversion will
need a workaround at least for a while.

Any thoughts on a workaround? Only this one series of tests seems to be
a problem because of the way it shares the pool...perhaps the test could
be modified temporarily?

DJ

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Received on Sun Apr 3 17:46:06 2005