Blair Zajac wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 15:13:07 -0700:
> On 03/30/2011 03:06 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> >I notice that FILE_LOCK_RETRY_LOOP() checks for EINTR when EDEADLK isn't
> >defined (or when APR isn't threaded). I assume that check is there for
> >the same reason --- i.e., that EINTR is another symptom of the deadlock
> >situation that FILE_LOCK_RETRY_LOOP() was added due to?
>
> No, that's unrelated. While I was working on the function, I
> decided to handle EINTR in the same way that many of our other io
> functions do, e.g. svn_io_create_unique_link(), svn_io_read_link(),
> do_io_file_wrapper_cleanup(). This one didn't seem to hurt and
> makes the function more robust. I didn't want spurious EINTR errors
> when trying to get a lock.
>
Okay, thanks. I stand by my +1 then.
(APR already handles EINTR in apr_file_lock(), at least in some
environments; but I don't see the harm in leaving our check in too.)
> Blair
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