Developers of Sympa

[András Bendzsák <address@concealed>]

Hi David,

> Anyway, to answer your request, we need the pid number in some cases, 
> such as when a process crashed and a new process starts and finds a pid 
> file. This is how we are able to send the errors that made the process 
> crash to the listmaster.

Could you point to which part of the code _read_ the PID from the lock
files (eg. stats.lock)?

> However:
> - it is not necessary anytime, so we could tweak this.
> - I don't see any reason why we sould put a write lock when displaying 
> the list of lists. All we need to do, after all, is read data to know 
> whether we can display a list or not. Nothing to write here. So there 
> may be a bug.

When the first time the cgi loads the lists it updates the admin_table,
the stats and maybe the binary configs. I don't know which part of these
are necessary.

-- 
Andras Bendzsak