Philip:
How do I subscribe to the dev list? Not sure I really have time for
that... but perhaps.
Thank you.
Doug
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Philip Martin
<philip.martin_at_wandisco.com>wrote:
> Doug,
>
> I started a thread on the dev list and meant to cc you but forgot.
> Don't feel any obligation to promote the ideas but do feel free to
> contibute if you want to.
>
> Philip Martin <philip_at_codematters.co.uk> writes:
>
> > One of my colleagues at WANdisco asked some questions about using
> > freeze. The first thing he wanted to know is how to detect whether a
> > freeze is running. There are various approaches: look at running
> > processes, look at processes with the lock file open, implement some
> > external lock, etc. but none are reliable or portable. The only
> > reliable way to do it is for Subversion to provide some sort of
> > implementation.
> >
> > A freeze query might be implemented by having a separate freeze lock.
> > The freeze function itself would then take the freeze lock before taking
> > the write lock, and the freeze query would try a non-blocking lock of
> > the freeze lock. This would probably go into the repos layer to avoid
> > duplicate implementations.
> >
> > I think something like that would work but I'm unsure whether we should
> > provide it. I'm concerned that it would be making freeze special.
> > Would we need to provide similar queries for upgrade, recover, pack,
> > etc?
> >
> > A second point was about adding a timeout to freeze. At present freeze
> > blocks until it gets the write lock and will wait as long as it takes.
> > There is no timeout in APR's file locking API so to implement a timeout
> > we would need to either sit in a loop attempting non-blocking locks or
> > use SIGALARM to cause EINTR. I think that would work but again I'm
> > unsure how useful this feature would be.
> >
> > A timeout leads on to a question was about error handling. At present
> > the return value of "svnadmin freeze repository program" is the return
> > value of the external program provided freeze managed to run the
> > program. If freeze failed to run the program for some reason then the
> > return value is generated by svnadmin directly. There is no way to
> > distinguish errors from 'program' from errors from 'svnadmin', they both
> > return values in the range 0-255. Success, zero, is unambiguous but any
> > error is difficult to interpret.
> >
> > I don't see any easy way round this. If we stop providing the 'program'
> > error as the return value how else do we provide it? Write it to
> > standard output in some known form? Invoke some post-freeze command and
> > pass it as a parameter?
> >
> > --
> > Philip
> >
>
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