[Xapian-discuss] Re: 1.0 news, and a call for testing

[Richard Boulton]

Richard Boulton wrote:
> The lock file shouldn't be removed, because flint uses higher level 
> file-locking, rather than just testing for the presence of the lock 
> file.  The lock on it should be released, though, when the Writable 
> database fails to be opened, so the overwrite step should work.
> 
> I'll try and write a test case to simulate this situation, and reproduce 
> it here.

I've added a test to Xapian for this situation, but it doesn't reproduce 
the problem.  If you could submit a working piece of code that fails in 
this way, that would be very helpful.

-- 
Richard