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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] has_version etc parallelisability
From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh () blueyonder ! co ! uk>
Date: 2007-12-31 14:28:44
Message-ID: 20071231142844.5e2a09aa () snowcone
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On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:11:16 -0800
"Alec Warner" <antarus@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 12/30/07, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > Is it legal for ebuilds to call has_version and friends in
> > parallel? Is it legal for ebuilds to call has_version and friends
> > after the ebuild process has terminated? Discuss.
>
> If the pm implements read/write locking on the underlying datastore
> (which it should probably have regardless of this request) then I
> don't see a problem in parallel has_version calls.
Actually, it's the communication channel that's the issue... If, for
example, has_version is implemented in terms of a request on a pipe
rather than execing a new package manager, we get into messy bash
locking territory...
> I don't get your second example..do you mean the ebuild is running
> has_version in the background and then terminating?
Yeah. Again, consider the pipe example. If the package manager closes
off the pipe when it thinks the ebuild's done, calling has_version will
get the backgrounded process SIGPIPEd.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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