Re: manual whitelist modification: concurrent access issue

Hi Marc,

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 02:43:19AM +0100, Marc Herbert wrote:

> Sometimes your definitely want to manually add someone in your
> whitelist. I see (at least) two non-anectodical cases:
> 
> - you write to someone who may also use ASK, and want to avoid the
>   deadlock.

There's no deadlock. Currently, ASK will just deliver messages that look
like a confirmation. Soon, ASK will coordinate with TMDA and QConfirm to
automatically reply to confirmations.

> - you write to someone overbusy/important, and you want to:
>    - not bother him with the confirmation
>    - receive his message as soon as possible

This is a valid point.

> The issue is then obviously: what happens if ASK tries to edit the
> whitelist file at the same time as you ?

Conflict happens! That's why you can specify more than one file for your
whitelist. ASK will only update the first and you can update the second
using a text editor. That's the recommended way of doing things.

Regards,
Paga

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