On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, John Wade wrote: > Hi seen file lock suffers, [...] > to my patch to work around seen file locking issues in cyrus 2.0.16 and > 2.1.3. For those who have already installed it, there are no changes in [...]
The patch is interesting, and I would apply it just-in-case to the Debian code, but I think we have room in cyrus for a more general solution. I'd like to see watchdogs in cyrus, just like we have in postfix for example. That would protect us of all bugs like the hanging imap and pop3d from causing resource starvation, while we track down and fix whatever issue is causing the subsystem to hang... Are there any ongoing efforts to do so? If not, I probably can start working on something like this (probably borrowing code from postfix, as soon as I am able to verify if the licenses of both cyrus and postfix would not cause trouble). What does the CMU crew think of this idea? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
