Re: comment closing race

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 12:31 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> I just found a race when debugging why closed comments sometimes don't
> show up, even though the live comment gets removed (but reloading fixes
> it).
> 
> It turns out that this is a race. We signal the ActiveTopic changed
> before the xmlrpc call is done. This means the transaction is not
> commited yet. A quick client can then re-dump the topic before the
> transaction, missing the new comment.

I think this is also happening for subscriptions to statements. Because
sometimes they don't update correctly, and the same race should be
possible for them. (Although i didn't verify that this is what caused it
to not update for me.)

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