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

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 23:16 -0400, Charlie Brady wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:29:00 -0400 (EDT)
> > Charlie Brady <charlieb-yum-devel at budge.apana.org.au> wrote:
> >
> >> I don't see any added value in printing the message multiple times.
> >
> > The value is mostly avoiding the impression of things being hung.
> 
> If I see a message which says "Waiting for exclusive lock ..." and nothing 
> more, I assume that the software is still waiting for an exclusive lock.
> 

Except when that suffer is interacting with rpm. Then you might think it
is wedged in a FUTEX_WAIT for the rest of eternity.


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