bogofilter -u broken: locking issue

Gyepi SAM gyepi at praxis-sw.com
Fri Oct 11 00:39:49 CEST 2002


On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 04:57:57PM -0500, Eric Seppanen wrote:
> 2. Placing new requirements on when and where list initialization occurs 
> will be troublesome because I'm adding the config function to add new 
> lists.  I'm not sure what to do about this because right now, the config 
> file parser ends up calling init_list().  Right now we make no distinction 
> between loading the list structure data (name, weight, etc.) and actually 
> opening the database.
> 
> I haven't committed these two changes because I haven't made sure the 
> whole thing works yet.  However, the directory handling is very 
> straightforward and I could probably commit that at any time if nobody 
> objects.

I have no object at all. Once you check in the changes, I will probably replace
your db_open() calls with db_init() which will do everything but open the database.
Then each function that needs to use a database will also have to open it. Should
be pretty straightforward.

-Gyepi



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