Re: [naviserver-devel] ns_set ... -persistent

[Stephen D. <sd...@gm...>]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Gustaf Neumann <ne...@wu...> wrote:
>
> Using a "_ns_set" capable of handling "-shared" which just calls
> existing "ns_set" with the unlocked semantics would not work,
> using a lock with for all "_ns_set" commands is not good either
> without modifying the existing "ns_set" semantics (one should
> not be able to access variables created by "_ns_set" from
> "ns_set"). If we check for the shared flag in "ns_set", we are
> essentially at the old "ns_set" implementation.

I was thinking that the 2 or 3 people in the world that need backward
compatibility would load the nsshare module and then:

  rename _ns_set ns_set

You wouldn't use them both, you just want your old code to work the
way it did in 1999.