Julian Foad wrote on Tue, 15 Jun 2010 at 20:21 -0000: > Hi devs. Going through the 1.6.x. STATUS file, I am finding some items > that could do with a better description or justification to make it > easier to evaluate them. Can anyone provide information on the > following: > > > > * r934599, r934603 > > Fix a concurrency issue in the FSFS rep-cache code. This indirectly > > concerns issue #3506. > > Justification: > > Opening the DB twice (and overwriting the handle) is undesired. > > Why is that undesired? I mean that as a serious practical question - > obviously it's theoretically redundant but that in itself doesn't > necessarily matter. What is the user-visible effect of the problem, and > of the proposed change?
Added a thread and some info to the STATUS entry --- hopefully that clarifies the change a bit. Thanks for inquiring!
