Opened 16 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

#258 closed defect (fixed)

Sysadmin doc should mention we fork to lock under Unix

Reported by: James Aylett Owned by: Olly Betts
Priority: normal Milestone: 1.0.12
Component: Documentation Version:
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: Blocked By:
Blocking: Operating System: All

Description

Sysadmins who pay attention to a Xapian install often are confused by either the forking behaviour or the presence of a child process during locking. Both should be explicitly mentioned in the documentation for sysadmins, to explain why it is a good thing.

We should perhaps also mention problems that could prevent the locking from working, such as resource limits and capability restrictions.

Change History (3)

comment:1 by Olly Betts, 15 years ago

Milestone: 1.1.1
Status: newassigned

Set milestone.

comment:2 by Olly Betts, 15 years ago

Milestone: 1.1.11.0.12

Document in trunk r12353. Should be backported for 1.0.12.

comment:3 by Olly Betts, 15 years ago

Component: OtherDocumentation
Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

Backported for 1.0.12 in r12355.

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