Bug #21884 | Instance Manager: PID file is created in non-atomic way | ||
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Submitted: | 28 Aug 2006 18:33 | Modified: | 5 Oct 2007 15:17 |
Reporter: | Alexander Nozdrin | Email Updates: | |
Status: | Unsupported | Impact on me: | |
Category: | Instance Manager | Severity: | S3 (Non-critical) |
Version: | 5.0.25BK | OS: | Any |
Assigned to: | CPU Architecture: | Any |
[28 Aug 2006 18:33]
Alexander Nozdrin
[28 Aug 2006 19:32]
Konstantin Osipov
Of course atomic create is very robust, but I'd say the pattern when one assumes that the file is not empty once it exists is broken too. I wonder if any other UNIX application does atomic creation of its pid file.