Robert Burrell Donkin ha scritto: > On 8/10/07, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Robert Burrell Donkin (JIRA) ha scritto: >>> [ >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-802?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#action_12518927 >>> ] >>> >>> Robert Burrell Donkin commented on JAMES-802: >>> --------------------------------------------- >>> >>> If we opt for read-write locking then the design of the locking needs to be >>> considered. The illustrative patch does not time out threads. Is timing out >>> a better idea? >> What is the current behavior of your patch when an operation find the >> resource locked? (early fail or does it wait to acquire the lock?) > > waits indefinitely to acquire. IMO waiting is definitely the right > approach with IMAP.
I agree. If we have deadlock then we should investigate the bug. If we introduce a timeout IMHO we add complexity and we make harder to track problems. Stefano --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
