Re: [Perl-workflow-devel] Cached condition bugfix

[Jonas B. N. <jo...@gm...>]

Hi Alex,

Can you please describe the patch in the Changes file. Then I will  
make a release over the weekend.

Marvellous work with the tests btw. our test coverage is at: 72.5 %

jonasbn

On 28/06/2007, at 16.26, Alexander Klink wrote:

> Hi Jonas,
> Hi all,
>
> I've just checked in a bugfix for the cached condition handling.
> In OpenXPKI, under mysterious circumstances, we ran into a race
> condition where a workflow checked the state of its forked child
> and the result of the checking condition and its inverse (using the
> '!'-syntax) where either both true or both false sometimes.
> This is the same race that was to be prevented by implementing the
> '!'-syntax in the first place. Apparently, my fix that cleared
> the condition cache so that circular workflows would not run forever
> reintroduced the race again :-(
> The fix now resets the condition cache on state changes and when
> get_available_action_names() is called and introduces corresponding
> tests.
> Jonas: a quick maintenance release incorporating the patch would be
> highly appreciated ...
>
> Best regards,
>     Alex
>
> P.S.: Sorry to hear about EBADCONTRACT :-(
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