Robert Burrell Donkin ha scritto:
> On 8/10/07, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Robert Burrell Donkin (JIRA) ha scritto:
>>>     [ 
>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-802?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#action_12518927
>>>  ]
>>>
>>> Robert Burrell Donkin commented on JAMES-802:
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>>>
>>> If we opt for read-write locking then the design of the locking needs to be 
>>> considered. The illustrative patch does not time out threads. Is timing out 
>>> a better idea?
>> What is the current behavior of your patch when an operation find the
>> resource locked? (early fail or does it wait to acquire the lock?)
> 
> waits indefinitely to acquire. IMO waiting is definitely the right
> approach with IMAP.

I agree. If we have deadlock then we should investigate the bug. If we
introduce a timeout IMHO we add complexity and we make harder to track
problems.

Stefano


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