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[PATCH] Re: mbk's recovery lock change

From: Tobias Ringström <tobias_at_ringstrom.mine.nu>
Date: 2004-08-29 16:10:21 CEST

Greg Hudson wrote:

>So, to summarize:
>
> What we have now: No diagnostic, blocking lock attempt
> mbk's alternative: Diagnostic if we can't get lock, then block
> My alternative: Fail if we can't get lock
> Other alternative: Diagnostic if we can't get lock, then block,
> and print another message when we do get lock
>
>
A problem with the current solution that you didn't mention is that it's
really hard to kill svnadmin while it's waiting to acquire the lock
because we ignore SIGINT and SIGKILL. I don't like the "fail if we can't
get lock" approach for the reason you quoted from mbk, but it's not only
a problem when running svnserve from inetd. You can get the same
problems with file:// and svn+ssh://. If you have a busy server that
serves multiple repositories, you don't want to shut down the whole
server just to recover a single repository.

The attached patch implements your "other alternative" above, and also
makes it possible to interrupt svnadmin while waiting for the lock.
Opinions?

/Tobias

[[[
Make 'svnadmin recover' print a warning message when it's waiting for
the exclusive lock and a message when the recovery has started. Allow
svnadmin to be interrupted while waiting for the lock.

* svnadmin/main.c
  (setup_cancellation_signals): New helper function.

  (recovery_started): New function to inform the user that the recovery
  has started.

  (subcommand_recover): Restore default signal handling before calling
  svn_repos_recover2. Call the updated svn_repos_recover2 with
  recovery_started as argument.

  (main): Use the new setup_cancellation_signals.

* include/svn_repos.h
  (svn_repos_recover2): Add a callback to be called when the recovery
  starts and a baton to be supplied to the callback.

* libsvn_repos/repos.c
  (svn_repos_recover2): Call the callback after acquiring the lock.

* bindings/java/javahl/native/SVNAdmin.cpp
  (SVNAdmin::recover): Update to match updated svn_repos_recover2.
]]]

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