Greg Hudson <[email protected]> writes: > That's a good theory. I don't know if you've been involved in previous > discussions about our DB2 locking, but since POSIX doesn't provide a way > to acquire a file lock with a timeout, we just try once a second for > five seconds, which doesn't provide any kind of fairness guarantee, > unfortunately.
I think it should be possible to do something using alarm() to provide timeouts for lock acquisition, but that wouldn't work well inside a library. ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
