Never, *ever* hold a mutex lock in the message database where there may

be traversals being attempted. Yes, this was from bitter experience (and
an out of control server :-). Also allow callers to break out of a tdb_chainlock
with sigalarm if desired.
Jeremy.
(This used to be commit a7781f91d8c1177210bffc199cd2f3b7ff993eaf)

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 69 deletions

diff --git a/source3/lib/messages.c b/source3/lib/messages.c
index 21470dff5c..d9886a54da 100644
--- a/source3/lib/messages.c
+++ b/source3/lib/messages.c
@@ -471,73 +471,4 @@ BOOL message_send_all(TDB_CONTEXT *conn_tdb, int msg_type,
 		*n_sent = msg_all.n_sent;
 	return True;
 }
-
-static SIG_ATOMIC_T gotalarm;
-
-/***************************************************************
- Signal function to tell us we timed out.
-****************************************************************/
-
-static void gotalarm_sig(void)
-{
-	gotalarm = 1;
-}
-
-/**
- * Lock the messaging tdb based on a string - this is used as a primitive
- * form of mutex between smbd instances. 
- *
- * @param name A string identifying the name of the mutex.
- */
-
-BOOL message_named_mutex(char *name, unsigned int timeout)
-{
-	TDB_DATA key;
-	int ret;
-	void (*oldsig_handler)(int) = NULL;
-
-	if (!message_init())
-		return False;
-
-	key.dptr = name;
-	key.dsize = strlen(name)+1;
-
-	if (timeout) {
-		gotalarm = 0;
-		oldsig_handler = CatchSignal(SIGALRM, SIGNAL_CAST gotalarm_sig);
-		alarm(timeout);
-	}
-
-	ret = tdb_chainlock(tdb, key);
-
-	if (timeout) {
-		alarm(0);
-		CatchSignal(SIGALRM, SIGNAL_CAST oldsig_handler);
-		if (gotalarm)
-			return False;
-	}
-
-	if (ret == 0)
-		DEBUG(10,("message_named_mutex: got mutex for %s\n", name ));
-
-	return (ret == 0);
-}
-
-/**
- * Unlock a named mutex.
- *
- * @param name A string identifying the name of the mutex.
- */
-
-void message_named_mutex_release(char *name)
-{
-	TDB_DATA key;
-
-	key.dptr = name;
-	key.dsize = strlen(name)+1;
-
-	tdb_chainunlock(tdb, key);
-	DEBUG(10,("message_named_mutex: released mutex for %s\n", name ));
-}
-
 /** @} **/