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aegis locking(5) aegis locking(5) NAME aegis locks - how locking works, and which commands use them DESCRIPTION Aegis maintains a database of information about the projects in its care, and the various changes, both completed and in progress. In or- der to ensure the integrity of this database, and also your project repository, it uses locks. From time to time, these locks are visible to the users, because they will be told that a command is waiting for a particular lock. For some transactions, this can be a long wait. Dining Philosophers While UNIX supplies locks in various flavors, if you need an entire set of locks simultaneously, there is no elegant "all or nothing " in- terface available. This is unsurprising, as this is one of the clas- sic computer science problems, known as the Dining Philosophers prob- lem. The master lock is used to solve the Dining Philosophers problem, and is meant to be very transient. It is only held while the other locks which are required (frequently two or more, hence the problem) are re- quested - non-blocking. Once they are all obtained (or not, and any partials given back) the master lock is released. It is usually held for much less than a second. If you notice the master lock being held, it is almost always a symptom of the NFS lock daemon misbehav- ing. If the lock(s) could not be obtained, the blocking lock is waited on (without the master). This is when the "waiting for" message is is- sued. When obtained, it is released and the whole cycle starts again. This is why you occasionally see a series of "waiting for" messages. (This could maybe be optimized some, but it is still possible to block on yet another lock, and they you have to release all and wait again. As yet, I'm not convinced the extra code complexity is required.) Listing Locks There is a command available to list the current Aegis locks. aegis -list locks Note that the project names are change numbers are guesses as the locks are hashed over a 16-bit range, and range overlaps are possible. Collisions are also possible, but fortunately rarer. Known Problems There is a known problem with the HP/UX NFS clients. If you see per- sistent "no locks available" error messages when /usr/local/lib is NFS mounted, try making the /usr/local/lib/lockfile file world writable. chmod 666 /usr/local/lib/lockfile There is the possibility of a denial of service attack (which is why the default is 0600) but since you are presently denied service anyway, it's academic. COMMANDS The following table shows the locks taken by the various commands. Note that theoretically some of the commands take too few locks, but this has yet to prove to be a problem in practice. Also, "project state file" and "change state file" are the same thing for branches, it just depends which way you are looking at them at the time. Command Global Project Project Ancestor Change User State State Baseline Baselines State State File File File File ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- aeb (dev) . . shared shared exclusive . aeb (int) . . . shared exclusive . aeca . . . . exclusive . aechown . . . . exclusive exclusive aeclean . . . . exclusive . aeclone . exclusive . . exclusive exclusive aecp . , , , exclusive . aecpu . . . . exclusive . aed . , , , exclusive . aedb . . . . exclusive exclusive aedbu . . . . exclusive exclusive aede . , . . exclusive exclusive aedeu . . . . exclusive exclusive aedn . exclusive . . . . aeib . exclusive . . exclusive exclusive aeibu . exclusive . . exclusive exclusive aeifail . exclusive . . exclusive exclusive aeipass . exclusive exclusive . exclusive exclusive aemv . , , , exclusive . aena . exclusive . . . . aenbr . exclusive . . . . aenbru exclusive exclusive . . . . aenc . exclusive . . . . aencu . exclusive . . . . aend . exclusive . . . . aenf . . . . exclusive . aenfu . . . . exclusive . aeni . exclusive . . . . aenpa exclusive . . . . . aenpr exclusive . . . . . aenrv . exclusive . . . . aent . exclusive . . exclusive . aentu . . . . exclusive . aepa . exclusive . . . . aera . exclusive . . . . aerd . exclusive . . . . aerfail . . . . exclusive exclusive aeri . exclusive . . . . aerm . , . . exclusive . aermu . . . . exclusive . aermpr exclusive . . . . . aerpa exclusive . . . . . aerpass . . . . exclusive . aerpu . . . . exclusive . aerrv . exclusive . . . . aet . . , , exclusive . SEE ALSO You may wish to see the manual pages of all of the above commands. Many have descriptions of the locking interactions. COPYRIGHT aegis version 4.25.D510 Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Peter Miller The aegis program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use the 'aegis -VERSion License' command. This is free software and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; for details use the 'aegis -VERSion License' command. AUTHOR Peter Miller E-Mail: pmiller@opensource.org.au /\/\* WWW: http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/ Reference Manual Aegis aegis locking(5)
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