On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 11:35:53PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On November 24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
> > Yikes! i wish i'd noticed that earlier. Is it documented anywhere
> > else that anyone knows?
>
> in /usr/share/doc/dspam/README.gz, i just noticed that in one part it
> claims the hash driver is threadsafe:
>
> Driver Requirements
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> T mysql_drv: MySQL client libraries (and a server to connect to)
> ora_drv: Oracle Call Interface (and a server to connect to)
> T pgsql_drv: PostgreSQL client libraries (and a server to connect to)
> sqlite_drv: SQLite v2.7.7 or above
> sqlite3_drv: SQLite v3.x
> *T hash_drv: None (Self-Contained Hash-Based Driver)
>
> Legend:
> * Default storage driver
> T Thread-safe (Required for running DSPAM in server daemon mode)
>
> but then later it goes on to claim the opposite:
>
> The DSPAM agent can be compiled with client/server support by configuring
> with --enable-daemon. You will need to use a multithread-safe storage driver
> (presently mysql_drv and pgsql_drv are supported). Once you have compiled
>
> hrm...
>
> Does anyone with more experience with fcntl() locking want to weigh in
> on the thread-safety of the hash_drv? I've asked on the dspam lists,
> and if Jonathan responds, i'll forward his response to this bug.
We should probably clarify it with the dspam developers, but dspam seems to be
currently stalled, for one reason or another.
Any idea why?
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