[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 294 sleep before doing a task

[Pavel Zuna]

Rob Crittenden wrote:
> One of the last steps of an install is to run through any updates. This 
> change adds a sleep() prior to calling tasks to ensure postop writes are 
> done
> 
> We were seeing a rare deadlock of DS when creating the memberOf task 
> because one thread was adding memberOf in a postop while another was 
> trying to create an index and this was causing a PRLock deadlock.
> 
> rob
> 
sleep might not be the best synchronization mechanism out there, but I think 
that in this case it is pretty much the only one available and it gets the job 
done, so ack.

Pavel