Re: NFS locking workaround merged ?

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Havoc,

On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 16:56, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> I meant to, I sort of wanted to unbreak it to handle /tmp properly
> without the DOS first

	As we discussed, it's a 1 method solution: 'linc_get_tmpdir' - we had
to solve that problem for ORBit2 too.

>  and also it doesn't play nice with GConf1
> (basically if using GCONF_LOCAL_LOCKS you can't run Galeon 1). 

	Ah - I hadn't thought of that.

>  When
> those are fixed probably GCONF_LOCAL_LOCKS should be the default and
> then we have GCONF_SHARED_LOCKS or something as the env variable.

	Yes; I suppose so.

> XML is the only one with any testing. markup code is way more
> sane/comprehensible, so if I was adding a significant new feature or
> we were seeing lots of bugs in XML, I'd probably consider it
> worthwhile to cut over to the markup backend and fix it, but as long
> as the code is just sitting there, we may as well use XML as it's
> tested.

	Yep; ok.

> > 	Also - it's rather a pain having 'gconf-sanity-check' in gconf, since
...
> > 	Any chance we can move that wholesale to gnome-session ?
> 
> Hmm, I suppose that's true. It would probably be fine to do so.

	Presumably that needs scheduling for Gnome 2.3, what with the current
Em-phasis on fixing bugs.

	Thanks,

		Michael.

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