RE: GNOME registry

["Fox, Kevin M" <kmfox bhi010 bhi-erc com>]

If the config library is written, you could use a flat file on filesystems
that support config file locking, and LDAP or whatever on ones that don't.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ulrich Drepper [SMTP:drepper@cygnus.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, December 30, 1998 4:01 PM
> To:	Miguel de Icaza
> Subject:	Re: GNOME registry
> 
> Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx> writes:
> 
> > The only way that will work reliably over NFS is using mkdir to create
> > a temporary file.  On top of that, picture crashing problems, so you
> > need to add timeout code to remove the directory if it fails and hope
> > the failure was real.
> 
> Well, this is correct but nevertheless it should be configurable.
> Maybe even at runtime.
> 
> Using locking dorectories is the safest, but also slowest solution and
> has the problem with stale directories.  If it is known for the local
> environment that POSIX locking works it should be used.  Using Linux's
> kernel NFS implementation it should work now, also Solaris and Irix
> machines should be fine.  In situations like this it wouldn't be very
> smart to use directories.
> 
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