Hi Lukasz,
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:13:19PM +0100, Lukasz Janyst wrote:
> I have been already contacted by Brian about this issue. This is
> one of the reasons why the final version of the patch that has made it
> to the xroot repository is sligthly different that the one you got:
> the fork handlers are disabled by default and one can enable them by
> setting an environment flag:
>
> http://xrootd.cern.ch/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/xrootd/patch/?id=953079e8605f58f0500e6b4ed774a8ed91a75671
>
> I can also add the check suggested by Chris just to be extra careful.
Ok, it looks like the environment for this fix is something we can turn
on programmatically (and not via an envvar, which we don't use for
configuration), is that correct? What is the reason for making it disabled
by default? Is there a penalty for using it in the non-fork cases or is
this just "caution" because it is a new/experimental feature?
Brian, can you look to see if we should move to an updated patch? (Based
on the final version above plus Chris patch if Lukasz thinks it is still
worth adding it.)
thanks,
Pete
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