"unfairness" of juju/mutex

[Adam Collard]

FWIW this is being tracked in https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju/+bug/1642541


On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 at 04:17 Nate Finch <nate.finch at canonical.com> wrote:

> Just for historical reference.  The original implementation of the new OS
> mutex used flock until Dave mentioned that it presented problems with file
> management (files getting renamed, deleted, etc).
>
> In general, I'm definitely on the side of using flock, though I don't
> think that necessarily solves our starvation problem, it depends on how
> flock is implemented and the specific behavior of our units.
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