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Re: [pcp] mmv PMDA and ReplacePmnsSubtree

To: Nathan Scott <nscott@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [pcp] mmv PMDA and ReplacePmnsSubtree
From: Mark Goodwin <goodwinos@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 14:39:31 +1000
Cc: kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Nathan Scott wrote:
----- "Ken McDonell" <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm not sure what ReplacePmnsSubtree does (that is after my time), but

src/pmns/ReplacePmnsSubtree (its after my time too, but IIRC
Jonathan wrote it to resolve some PMNS locking issues).

yes he did. IIRC, the pmns manipulation scripts had no mutex.
I think we tripped up during rc when one PMDA dynamically
reconfigured it's pmns whilst another was auto-installing
via .NEEDINSTALL during rc. Something like that.

-- Mark

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