Messages in this thread | | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: File locking anomaly under 2.0.30 | Date | 24 Jul 1997 14:58:25 +0200 |
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I wrote: > I'm trying to install mysql, an SQL database which uses threading and > fcntl-style file locks. > > Apparently, POSIX locks are not released when a thread dies because all the > files are still open from other threads -- but that doesn't help. :-/ > Note: the dead thread which held that lock should of course have released its locks before dying. Apparently, it didn't. Why it didn't is a very good question, but since threads seem to be untraceable under 2.0.30 I don't even know how to start figuring this out.
mysql does include a threaded version of Fred Fish's dbug package and makes heavy use of it, but wading through a few tons of debugging messages is not my kind of preferred evening entertainment at the moment. :-(
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