On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:24:16PM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
Folks,
I've just released Mailman 2.0.5 which fixes a problem with stale lock files that can occur under certain situations when the user hits the `Stop' button on their browser. These stale lock files can cause mailing lists to be inaccessible for long periods of time (until the stale lock file times out or is manually removed).
I just noticed this in my locks directory: usw-sf-list1:/var/local/mailman/bin# l ../locks/ total 24 drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 16384 May 9 10:40 ./ drwxrwsr-x 21 mailman mailman 4096 Apr 10 15:06 ../ -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 59 May 7 05:42 jboss-user.lock.usw-sf-list1.26443 usw-sf-list1:/var/local/mailman/bin# (prcoss 26443 doesn't exist obviously)
Note that this is not bad because it doesn't keep the list locked. There is probably a small race in the removal of the temporary lockfile that you link to though.
I'll delete this one and see if others pop up over time.
Marc
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