Re: ra_svn deadlock

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 10:45, Philip Martin wrote:
> > I get a deadlock in daemon mode on Linux. I think the problem is
> > caused by externals_tests.py using a simple directory copy to
> > duplicate a repository. Is that a valid way to duplicate a
> > repository?
>
> No, but this may uncover a real bug.
>
> Since svnserve is holding a repository open for the lifetime of a
> connection, then depending on how locking works, it may be impossible
> for two client connections to access the same repository at the same
> time. That would also affect diff-tests 5.

We often have multiple "clients" holding database locks at the same
time, I don't think that's a problem. diff-tests 5 passes :)

> I don't know why I haven't run into this in my tests. Maybe a db 4.0.14
> vs. db 4.1 issue.

I'm using 4.1.

-- 
Philip Martin
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