On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 06:02:31PM +, Alin Serdean wrote:
> > > I'm still not sure that real locking is actually needed for Windows.
> > > I believe that, on Windows, the functionality of a lock file only
> > > requires holding the file open. For a program to detect whether the
> > > lock file
> > I'm still not sure that real locking is actually needed for Windows.
> > I believe that, on Windows, the functionality of a lock file only
> > requires holding the file open. For a program to detect whether the
> > lock file is locked, it can just try to delete it; on Windows, I
> > believe th
> > I used only shared lock, in order to be compatible with Python tests,
> > which try to acquire the lock exclusively. On Windows if the exclusive
> > lock is used, than the read access is denied too for other instances of this
> file.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul-Daniel Boca
>
> I'm still not s
On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 04:27:49PM +, Paul Boca wrote:
> If the PID file isn't locked then appctl.py detects it as stale and
> bails out without doing anything. Because of this lots of Python tests fail.
> Also this protects the PID file from being overwritten.
>
> I used only shared lock, in
windows: Added lockf function and lock PID file
>
> > -Mesaj original-
> > De la: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@openvswitch.org] În numele Paul Boca
> > Trimis: Friday, July 1, 2016 7:28 PM
> > Către: dev@openvswitch.org
> > Subiect: [ovs-dev] [PATCH V5] win
> -Mesaj original-
> De la: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@openvswitch.org] În numele Paul Boca
> Trimis: Friday, July 1, 2016 7:28 PM
> Către: dev@openvswitch.org
> Subiect: [ovs-dev] [PATCH V5] windows: Added lockf function and lock PID
> file
>
> If the PID file isn
If the PID file isn't locked then appctl.py detects it as stale and
bails out without doing anything. Because of this lots of Python tests fail.
Also this protects the PID file from being overwritten.
I used only shared lock, in order to be compatible with Python tests,
which try to acquire the lo
