Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> --On Thursday, December 9, 2004 4:28 PM -0600 Ben Collins-Sussman
> <sussman@collab.net> wrote:
>
>> This ignores the fact that there are a number of libsvn_fs users that
>> are
>> *not* RA layers. Like svnlook, viewcvs, and so on.
>
>
> *sigh*
>
> I meant svn_repos and svn_fs not RA (sorry, mistyped). It'd be up to
> the server side to figure out when to call
> svn_repos_init()/svn_repos_check()/svn_repos_foo(). The point is that
> the shmem check (as you have to attach to the segment, create the
> segment if it doesn't exist, then map it in, check the exclusivity,
> and then close it) is going to be extremely expensive. This doesn't
> need to be done for mod_dav_svn if it's done in the right location:
> i.e. before httpd comes up. -- justin
Like I said, we can't use shmem segments because tbere's no automatic
cleanup if a process crashes. What Pthilip suggests is close to a
workable solution, because file locks _do_ get cleaned up when the
owning process exits.
-- Brane
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Received on Fri Dec 10 03:13:52 2004