dead records in locking.tdb (was: Locking database cleanup?)

[Jeremy Allison]

On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 09:40:48AM +0530, Dhruva Krishnamurthy wrote:
> Hi,
> Just an idea with my limited knowledge of the core internals.
> - Use the aproach suggested by Jeremy, clean up if no process is
> running with the PID in the TDB records
> - For every forked smbd process (on each new client connection), have
> it clean up the TDB's with it's PID (child process's PID) at startup.
> This makes sure that no stale records can affect that process's
> working.

Traversing the tdb at startup is excruciatingly painful
on systems like Solaris (and others). It's why we removed
the code that did just this in the first place.

Jeremy.