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RE: threads and the working copy

From: Andy Cutright <Andy.Cutright_at_borland.com>
Date: 2005-06-20 22:34:58 CEST

thanks for the quick response,

cheers,
andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Hudson [mailto:ghudson@MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 1:22 PM
> To: Andy Cutright
> Cc: dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: threads and the working copy
>
> On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 12:53 -0700, Andy Cutright wrote:
> > i'm curious about whether the 1.2 client libraries are
> thread safe. more
> > specifically, is it safe to modify a single working copy
> concurrently
> > using the client libraries? is it supported for example to
> run two or
> > more concurrent commits on different files or hierarchies
> using the same
> > working copy?
>
> It's basically safe as far as I know. If you use ra_dav, neon's
> initialization is protected by a static variable, which means
> there's an
> unlikely race condition there.
>
> > along the same lines, i've seen discussion about issues
> with FSFS and
> > the APR on UNIX.
>
> > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2265
> >
> > the bug report says this is "largely fixed". what are the remaining
> > issues in 1.2?
>
> If the caller changes the uuid of a repository using svn_fs_set_uuid()
> and, without closing that repository, opens it within another thread,
> two different mutexes will be used the protect the write lock
> within the
> repository, which means both threads might consider themselves to be
> holding the write lock at the same time, which could lead to colliding
> commits.
>
> The only real-life consumer of svn_fs_set_uuid() is "svnadmin load",
> which is not multi-threaded, so this is not a practical issue.
>
>
>

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