Re: Checkpoint less frequently

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 13:03, Branko Čibej wrote:
> [When the monitor fails to keep a process from hitting a stale lock:]
> > So we wait for a bit, then kill it.
>
> If the monitor process is started automatically, then it may have been
> started by a different user than the one whose process hung. So we
> can't kill it.

Even if you get round that, there are other problems. Subversion
provides libraries to encourage alternative database clients. We
can't go blindly killing those, it may do more harm than good. You
might kill my fancy Subversion-aware editor. You might kill a process
that is accessing multiple repositories, in which case you may well be
the cause of other repositories hanging.

-- 
Philip Martin
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