Locking database cleanup?

[tridge at samba.org]

Volker,

 > Are normal tdb writes covered by transactions now, if only
 > for their internal stuff, or would we have to encapsulate
 > every write with a start/commit transaction?

you'd have to wrap them in start/commit transaction.

The reason it works that way is that the tdb API doesn't tell tdb how
to group the operations together. So if we just made each operation a
transaction, and you are updating two records which have some mutual
dependence, then when it rolls back you won't have a corrupt database,
but you will have an inconsistent one.

For many of the simpler databases in Samba this doesn't matter, but
for some it does.

Cheers, Tridge