On 01 Jul 2003 12:52:33 -0700 James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> It works as expected.. the parent automatically dies and the child
> continues it's run... Problem is when I put a similar case into an RPM
> and it runs it.  It hangs.  RPM will not continue until child runs it's
> course.  And all the time that rpm #1 is open I can't start installing
> rpm #2 (the rpm database does not multi-task.)  grrrr.  Although rpm
> uses bash shell scripts it sure doesn't use them correctly.

Sorry, I don't follow all the threads...  From what you say here, I think
what you are up against is DB locking...  and that won't be solved with
multiple threads unless the DB allows it, which I doubt.  Kinda sounds
like the rpm DB is Linux' "registry" in this respect...


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