On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 04:21:53PM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: > SQLite uses only F_SETLK, never F_SETLKW. Doesn't that mean that SQLite > will work the same with or without deadlock detection? Doesn't deadlock > detection only come into play with F_SETLKW? That's correct. > > >> (Actually, what happens if you receive a signal which waiting on a file > > lock?) > > > > > > Return -EINTR. > > > > Huh. SQLite is not checking for EINTR if fcntl(F_SETLK,...) fails. Should > it be? Or does EINTR only come up for F_SETLKW? I don't know--I wonder if a distributed filesystem, for example, might allow even a non-blocking lock request to be interrupted? Might be interesting to check what nfs does. --b. > > We do check for EINTR and retry for other system calls (read(), write(), > fallocate(), ftruncate(), close(), chmod(), open(), maybe others too). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
