Ok, what if when the script was registered it needs to define which =
files it
was going to access?  Then the code could add a lock for those files and =
the
release them with the process exits.

Shawn=20


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On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Shawn Anderson wrote:

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> I was thinking more of a plugin as a standalone external application =
=3D=20
> (.exe, ..pl, js, etc).  Not a DLL concept -- too much of a hassle for=20
> stability. =3D If you spawn a process and it crashes, it will not take =

> down Xmail.  No as =3D for the resource locking, that is a more=20
> interesting problem -- but isn't it only an issue for the items that=20
> are currently indexed?

No, each file need locking when accessed. XMail implements a multiple =
reader
single writer locking on every file.


- Davide

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