[PATCHES] Cleanup dead records in messages.tdb

[Volker Lendecke]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:20:15AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > Can we avoid the traverse in the normal case? Is it really
> > that the smbds in your case left corrupt keys behind? In
> > remove_child_pid we know which child died, so we could
> > directly check and delete its record. Traverses always scare
> > me :-)
> 
> We could always add a new message MSG_SMB_MSG_VALIDATE
> and have it act the same as MSG_SMB_BRL_VALIDATE does in
> cleaning up the brl lock db. That way we only traverse
> in the 'known child fail' case.

The point is -- I want to avoid the traverse. I wanted to
know from Christof whether there was more damage than just
orphaned records. Those could be cleaned up in a more
straightforward manner, avoiding traverse completely.

Volker

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