On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 01:01:30AM -0400, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > If dlm_lock collides with a lock mastered locally it returns EAGAIN and > the ast is never called. Is this a bug or a feature? I see it as a > bug because it forces me to handle the EAGAIN in two places to handle > the same event, which is creeping cruft. It is also sure to lead to > bugs where a distributed program works perfectly until somebody runs > two instances on the same host. It's a matter of opinion I suppose. If you get an error return from dlm_lock and ignore it then you deserve everything you get. Particularly with something like a NOQUEUE lock where you must expect that there is a reasonable probability of failure. As VMS also has this behaviour I suspect it'll be something people are used to. patrick
