On Monday, 8 October 2018 14:03:24 BST Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> On 08/10/18 13:59, Mark Syms wrote:
> > That sounds entirely reasonable so long as you are absolutely sure that
> > nothing is ever going to mess with that glock, we erred on the side of
> > more caution not knowing whether it would be guaranteed safe or not.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> >     Mark
> 
> We should have a look at the history to see how that wait got added.
> However the "dead" flag here means "don't touch this glock" and is there
> so that we can separate the marking dead from the actual removal from
> the list (which simplifies the locking during the scanning procedures)

You beat me to it :-)

I think there might be a bit of a problem inserting a new entry with the same 
name before the old entry has been fully destroyed (or at least removed), 
which would be why the schedule() is there.

-- 
Tim Smith <tim.sm...@citrix.com>


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