Am Donnerstag, 12. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Ciaran McCreesh: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:42:32 +0200 (CEST) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:17:06 +0100 > > > > It's simple. One NFS file server with portage on it (and > > distfiles, of course) and cron job doing paludis -s. Multiple Gentoo > > clients that mount portage. > > Mm, then I'm highly unconvinced that Portage-style lock files are a > good solution -- security and reliability aside, if they were the right > answer I'd expect to see a lot more traditional Unixy applications > using similar methods... > > So we're back to use cases. Against what precisely are we trying to > protect?
In case of distfiles: Multiple clients interfering with each other while
downloading the same source archive.
Bye...
Dirk
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