Re: Wishes for set ACLs

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Luke Howard wrote:

> > > We actually only use one locker ID per thread. But, the txn pointer 
> > > does need to be propagated, and looking thru HEAD 
> > > acl.c:aci_set_gather() I see this isn't happening there, so this is a 
> > > problem for sets. I think I can fix this pretty easily.
> > >      
> > Thanks for the fix.  I've been finally able to get a deadlock, which is 
> > not addressed by your fix because more than one thread is involved.  
> > Suggestions about how to fix it?
> >    
>
> We have seen deadlocks in our ACL plugin, too (it does a bunch of
> internal searches).
>  
Well, the fix that Howard just suggested, which is now in HEAD/2.3 
(should not affect 2.2, because ACL checking of userPassword values was 
introduced recently when addressing ITS#3446) may help in solving your 
problems, unless you noted the deadlocks with 2.2 only.  I suggest you 
try it in any case.

p.


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