[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 294 sleep before doing a task

[Rob Crittenden]

Pavel Zuna wrote:
> Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> One of the last steps of an install is to run through any updates. 
>> This change adds a sleep() prior to calling tasks to ensure postop 
>> writes are done
>>
>> We were seeing a rare deadlock of DS when creating the memberOf task 
>> because one thread was adding memberOf in a postop while another was 
>> trying to create an index and this was causing a PRLock deadlock.
>>
>> rob
>>
> sleep might not be the best synchronization mechanism out there, but I 
> think that in this case it is pretty much the only one available and it 
> gets the job done, so ack.
> 
> Pavel

pushed to master
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