Re: (ITS#5451) syncprov_checkpoint deadlock bugfix?

[rein@tollevik.no]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no wrote:

> Does this help?  From my fiddling with ITS#5340 (REP_ENTRY_MODIFIABLE).
> I do not understand syncprov's handling of REP_ENTRY_MUSTRELEASE though.
> (For one thing it seems to assume that REP_ENTRY_MUSTRELEASE is set if
> and only if rs.sr_entry->e_private != NULL.  Which is possibly true with
> back-bdb but seems a shaky assumption in general.)

I have found out how to reliably reproduce this bug in our master server, 
and it definitely involves syncprov.  I'm now working on reproducing it 
in a minimalistic test configuration, I'll try your patch there and report 
back.

Rein