opendmarc / Tickets / #25 Race condition between writing and reading the history file

#25 Race condition between writing and reading the history file

Milestone: 0.2.0

Status: closed

Owner: Murray S. Kucherawy

Labels: None

Updated: 2012-09-14

Created: 2012-08-29

Creator: Murray S. Kucherawy

Private: No

Even with the history file being renamed before being consumed, opendmarc could have it open for writing, meaning the consumer gets a partial entry at the end or even a lost entry.

opendmarc should lock the file for writing, and opendmarc-import should lock it for reading.

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Murray S. Kucherawy - 2012-09-14

status: open --> closed

assigned_to: Murray S. Kucherawy
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Murray S. Kucherawy - 2012-09-14

v0.2.2 shipped with a fix for this.

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