On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:25:53PM -0600, subashab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>iptables -w 2.1 > >> > >>0.01s sleep, retry > >>0.02s sleep, retry > >>0.03s sleep, retry > >>... > >>2.1s sleep, exit > >> > >>Note that it sleeps for 10ms and retries rather than sleeping for a > >>single > >>iteration for 2.1s seconds and then retrying. > >> > >>Let me know if there are any concerns with this. > > > >But this is changing the existing behaviour, right? My understanding > >is that -w indicates the net wait time for each try. > > Hi Pablo > > Currently, each wait time is 1 second. -w is the overall time upto which it > has to wait. > > bool xtables_lock(int wait) > { > int fd, waited = 0, i = 0; > > fd = open(XT_LOCK_NAME, O_CREAT, 0600); > if (fd < 0) > return true; > > while (1) { > if (flock(fd, LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB) == 0) > return true; > else if (wait >= 0 && waited >= wait) //total time upto which we need to > wait. > return false; > if (++i % 2 == 0) > fprintf(stderr, "Another app is currently holding the xtables lock; " > "waiting (%ds) for it to exit...\n", waited); > waited++; > sleep(1); //sleep for one second only > } > } > > My patch does not change the behavior of -w itself. It only changes the > sleep interval to 10ms when a decimal is specified. Sorry, then I misunderstood the semantics of -w, I remembered this specified the sleep interval but I was wrong. > Existing behavior of 1 second sleep for integral interval is preserved. Then, I'd suggest you add a new specific option to specify the interval, allowing this sec.msecs notation, preserving the 1 second interval as default. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html