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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