[PATCH] Clear spinlocks in TDB

[Volker Lendecke]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 02:29:44PM +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> Debian currently contains a very old copy of standalone TDB that has
> been built with spinlocks and users have been developing with this
> version. Introducing a new version of TDB breaks all of their existing
> databases.

Can't you do something like

if (!(tdb->flags & CLEAR_IF_FIRST) && (have_spinlocks(tdb)))
{
	if (!upgrade(tdb)) {
		return -1;
	}
	goto again;
}

If this was the only hunk to tdb_open_ex I'd feel a bit
better.

Volker
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