Full_Name: Howard Chu Version: HEAD/RE24 OS: URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (109.151.244.127) Submitted by: hyc

Currently since MacOSX and Windows don't support process-shared mutexes residing in shared memory, MDB uses global named semaphores instead on these platforms. The semaphore name is derived from a hash of the pathname of the lock file. This approach was quick and dirty and is prone to failure if relative paths and absolute paths are mixed, or if a file can be accessed thru multiple paths (e.g. symlinks, loopback mounts, whatever).

Instead of the pathname, a unique file identifier of the lock file should be used. For MacOSX we can obtain (device,inode) using fstat(). For Windows we can obtain (dwVolumeSerialNumber,nFileIndexLow,nFileIndexHigh) using GetFileInformationByHandle().