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

[Fabrice Colin]

On 5/6/07, Richard Boulton <richard at lemurconsulting.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
Okay, I will look into it.
Thanks !

Fabrice