On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 09:31:44PM +0100, Ricardo Kustner wrote:
I wonder though what happens if some impatient moderator decides not to wait before the page finnishes loading, switches to a differen webpage and therefor breaks the python cgi process... will some approved posts stay in the queue instead?
Try it out ! ;) It depends on the exact behaviour of both the webbrowser and the webserver. I haven't checked the Mailman code but i assume it either continues with its jobs until it tries to write output, usually at the end of the script, or it gets a signal and cleans up nicely. Postings shouldn't disappear, if that's what you mean.
I mentioned before that I think that it could be better if the cgi scripts don't do anything more than just "mark" message as being approved... cgi scripts should have a short life time and definately shouldn't be waiting for something too long...
I agree, and I think I've seen more comments and postings talking about it. Noone has implemented it yet, though, and the current method works too well for it to be a rela problem, I guess ;)
btw i used the original LockFile.py this time...
Go ahead and try it with mine -- it should make the waits you have to endure a tad shorter. The problem with the old locking mechanism is that a lot of processes end up butting heads in a painful way when they try to grab the lock. In the modified one, the first process to try and get the lock after it is freed, actually gets the lock.
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