Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> writes:
To make sure I understand this, I will discuss only the the -all case, which
is
all I asked for. (There would appear to be complex interactions between the
other cases; it would hurt my brain to understand them.)
The more I look at it ... it seems that -all won't work. Right now the
users of locking are:
- Context I/O
- Sequence I/O
- Annotations
- MIME cache
- slocal (updating the duplicate supression database).
The first two are the ones we care about right now.
Context is easy, but the sequences are kept per-folder. I'm assuming you don't
want -all to lock all of the sequences in all of your folders.
Yes, I do. I it to lock EVERYTHING. Maybe you want to get fancy and give mhlock
options for partial locking capabilities, but there ought to be a way to lock
EVERYTHING. Indeed I would vote for EVERYTHING to be the default. I want to
write scripts and be oblivious as possible to locking issues.
So I don't think we can have -all.
--Ken
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