[Yum-devel] [PATCH/RFC] Don't exit immediately on lock held

[James Antill]

On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 10:41 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> Per a suggestion on fedora-devel-list from Hans de Goede, the following
> makes it so that we don't immediately exit on the command line if the
> lock is held by another process.  Instead, we spin checking every two
> seconds to see if the lock has been released.  This helps in the case
> where, eg, yum-updatesd is downloading metadata so that you don't have
> to guess when it's done.  And if you don't want to wait, ctrl-c exits
> immediately.
> 
> Other opinions/thoughts?

 One of the places I'd often like something like this is what I want to
install something but have just ask yum to install something else, or do
an update. So from that point of view I don't think 2 seconds is a good
number, esp. given the message being printed out all the time.
 Power of 2 backoff upto a limit seems pretty easy to do. Updated patch
attached.

-- 
James Antill <jantill at redhat.com>
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