Re: Multiple Polipos sharing disk cache
Gabriel Kerneis <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.polipo.user |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:28:31PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > Which leaves two "bugs" > 1. Documentation incorrectly states that new cache files can be created with "exclusive open", while > in reality without cooperative locking on part of Polipo and the process creating the new file, > there could be race conditions. Could you give an example of such a race condition? > 2. Documentation doesn't state how Polipo itself creates (or modifies) cache files. Does it > use locking? Does it create a temporary file and then rename it? Looking into diskcache.c indicates that it uses "exclusive open" for disk entries. Best, -- Gabriel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov