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-<h1> The <tt>s6lockd-helper</tt> program </h1>
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-<tt>s6lockd-helper</tt> is a helper program for the s6lock daemon.
-It just acquires a lock and holds it until it is killed or told to
-exit by its parent daemon.
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-<h2> Interface </h2>
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-<p>
- s6lockd-helper is not meant to be invoked directly by the user:
-it will be spawned by the
-<a href="s6lockd.html">s6lockd</a> program.
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-<h2> Notes </h2>
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- <li> s6lockd-helper blocks on lock acquisition until it succeeds. It then
-notifies its parent. It exits when its parent tells him to (i.e. when the
-client asks for lock release). During the lock acquisition phase, it can
-be killed if its parent detects a timeout. </li>
- <li> One s6lockd-helper process per lock is the only way (apart from
-threads) to implement timed lock acquisition. This can lead to a lot of
-s6lockd-helper processes, but this is not a problem:
- <ul>
- <li> Processes are not a scarce resource. Today's schedulers work in O(1),
-or in O(a function of the number of runnable processes), which means that a
-sleeping process takes no scheduling time at all </li>
- <li> s6lockd-helper is extremely tiny. Every instance should use up at
-most one or two pages of non-sharable memory. </li>
- </ul> </li>
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