Hi Ken,
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> The issue is real, but I'm obviously not explaining it well enough.
> [...]
> Let me try with an annotated example.
BTW - thanks for the detailed explanation, this got me on the same page
as you now I think.
> am not sure there will be QA coverage, because the issue is a design
> problem, rather than a bug in implementation.
OK. It sounds possible that "kill -9" on an active logger, followed
by replay/logcheck may be able to induce the failures of the current
code, and demonstrate quantifiable improvements. Maybe not reliable
failure cases, but with sufficient iterations/entropy/gamma-rays, we
should be able to build confidence in any changes.
> Neither of these problems are new. But as we inch towards a unified
> context of some sort, and before that pmNewContext accepting a directory
> name as an argument for PM_CONTEXT_ARCHIVE it is going to become a more
> pressing matter.
Ayup, sounds good.
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Nathan
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