[Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-checkins] mailman/Mailman ListAdmin.py,2.42,2.43

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 03:30, Thomas Wouters wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:02:29PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 19:31, twouters at users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> 
> > > Fix another of Peer's annoying bugs: somehow his next_request_id ended up
> > > lower than the highest entry in the list config.db, so the assertion was
> > > being triggered. We can just deal with the problem instead.
> 
> > Very strange!  Does this (and Peer's other problems) make us question
> > the integrity of the LockFile algorithm?
> 
> Yes, I'm going to setup a LockFile stresstest when I get a moment (which
> will probably not be in the next three weeks, unfortunately.)

Note that at the bottom of LockFile.py there's an attempt at a stress
test.  It would be good to code review this to make sure it's testing
what we think it should test and what it ought to test <wink>.  It's
also never been really run in an NFS environment.  I don't know if
Peer's using NFS, but if so that would be the first place I'd suspect.

-Barry