Re: Locking functional spec: timeouts

On Oct 18, 2004, at 6:29 PM, Branko Čibej wrote:

> No, it's not. I meant that Subversion /qua/ Subversion shouldn't
> support lock timeouts. But mod_dav_svn (not ra_dav!) obviously has to.
>

I don't understand: what's wrong with supporting lock timeouts as a
'core' locking feature in the libsvn_repos (or fs) libraries? As
ghudson suggested, the expiration time can be just another field in the
repository's representation of a lock. When some process -- whether it
be svnserve, apache, or ra_local -- tries to use the lock, or runs 'svn
update', or whatever, libsvn_repos code checks that the lock hasn't yet
expired. If it has, then it throws an error and/or tells the client
that the lock is defunct, and then deletes the lock object.

I don't think we need a special daemon hanging around, trying to delete
expired locks. Expired locks can be detected and tossed "lazily", only
when something lists or examines them.
  

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Received on Tue Oct 19 17:08:01 2004