[548] in athena10
GConf2 backend locking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Sat Sep 27 17:49:39 2008
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From: Robert Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:48:35 -0400
In reviewing our local changes to GConf2, I found that gconfd does
not lock its backend when syncing it in Athena 9.4. Apparently when
we updated to GConf 2.8.0, I did not notice that the current xml
backend library is no longer built from the backend/xml-* sources,
but from the markup-* sources instead; our locking changes are only
in the xml-* sources.
As we have been running without locking for some time with no
reported problem (that I know of), and in the spirit of minimizing
local source changes to stock software, I thereby propose that we do
not address the locking issue for Athena 10. If combined with not
running a separate gconfd for each session, as Greg discussed in
recent mail, I believe we can then get by with no local source
modifications to GConf2.
Bob
