[ovs-dev] [idl 1/2] ovsdb-idl: Fix atomicity of writes that don't change a column's value.

Andrew Evans aevans at nicira.com
Fri Apr 8 17:52:38 UTC 2011


On 4/8/11 10:27 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 10:25:26AM -0700, Andrew Evans wrote:
>> What prevents another client from writing a different value since we
>> last read the row?
> 
> A write-only column is only suitable for a client that owns a
> particular column.  This is documented in ovsdb-idl.h:

Thanks, that makes sense. The patch looks correct to me.



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