Ideas wanted for TXN and Concurrent store recovery handling

[Tom Anderson]

From: "Matthias Andree" <matthias.andree at gmx.de>
> > Perhaps you can ping the
> > running process by raising a signal.  Don't know if any of that helps
> > or if its just a mental fart.
>
> I'd wondered how I can do that without adding such a timeout for each
> and every Berkeley DB call and with restarting the time for any progress
> the process makes. Hm.

Others have discussed in the past creating a bogofilter daemon.  You'd have
more control over zombies if every process was a child of the daemon.  That
would also allow you to store lock information in memory rather than writing
to disk as each child could ask permission from the parent.

Tom