[File Install] Do not perform management activities while framework is
starting/stopping
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Key: FELIX-2787
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2787
Project: Felix
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: File Install
Affects Versions: fileinstall-3.1.4
Reporter: Richard S. Hall
Fix For: fileinstall-3.1.6
File Install has been known to cause deadlocks, race conditions, and other
sorts of spurious issues. One of the main reasons for this is that File Install
is pretty aggressive in its management of bundles. This has caused us to
improve the framework to deal with its aggressiveness, but still it is not
perfect. We have seen people wanting to introduce a delay value for management,
etc. We also see issues where the framework is trying to shut down and File
Install is going right behind the framework restarting bundles as the framework
stops them. It would be better if File Install monitored the starting/stopping
status for the framework and only performed its management activities while the
framework were active. This means File Install's management threads should not
do their processing when the framework is not in the ACTIVE state. This will be
a good improvement, although it won't completely eliminate the window, since
this is a check-then-act situation. However, as long as the threads check the
status on each process loop, the window will be significantly reduced.
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