Cyrus IMAPd 2.2.8 - DBERROR db4: 25 lockers

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Igor Brezac wrote:
> No, a lock (a locker to be more precise) is released when the process 
> exits.  You will get a locker leak if you manually kill the process.  I 

I see. A locker isn't a lock, but access to the locks themselves?

I should go read the DB3/DB4.2 API docs. But they are quite horrid, bleah.

> suppose this is a bug.

Only if a locker precludes other lockers to work (e.g. by holding an
exclusive lock) when it should not been doing so.

> True, and the process will hold a locker (maybe more, depending on how 
> many database files the process needs to open) during its lifetime.

Hmm...

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  Henrique Holschuh
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