[Xapian-discuss] Atomic DB rebuilds

[Sam Liddicott]

Richard Boulton wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 09:22 +0100, Sam Liddicott wrote:
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>>Does omega chdir to the database dir before opening all the files?
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>No.
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>> Or is there a race condition as the symlink changes if a DB is being
>>opened?
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>I think there is.  Possibly this could be solved by using readlink(2) to
>read the actual path pointed to by the symlink, and constructing the
>database path based on the real path.
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Repeatedly calling readlink as I now have a couple of levels of symlink 
redirection.

Sam

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