DKNFs even *with* -p [long; lots o' code]

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:24:19PM -0400, Bruce Easton wrote:
> > But since prc.whack and prc.push are the only things writing records in
> > those files at them moment, it seemed pertinent to mention it.
> 
> I see - and are there any other processes that delete records other 
> than whack?

Nope.

>               It just seems like with your shadow system, you're the 
> only one affecting records with these few processes. 

Correct; that was indeed the point I was trying to make.

>                                                        And correct 
> me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you're running one of these 
> batch processes at a time, so I would think if you're indexes 
> were not corrupt to start with, then there must be some 
> creation/deletion coding conflict or creation/deletion 
> (irregular process) interruption.

Indeed.

I'm going to scratch-build the indexes today and see what happens.

> I don't see anything obvious in the push program.  You might 
> try identifying when each lookup no longer needs to be open 
> and then closing them at those points so that at least you know 
> exactly when the writes are expected to occur.

Maybe, but I'm not fond of gratuitous writes... They often seem to
cause more trouble than they cure.

Cheers,
-- jra
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