[OpenAFS] "stillborn client" in src/viced/host.c

[Bill Stivers]

Thanks Jeffrey!

Is this indicative of a failure condition, or just indicative that  
there are many, many file operations taking place at the same time,  
and there's some measure of thread contention for resources?

--Bill

On Oct 17, 2006, at 2:29 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote:

> It means that the file server received two requests from the same
> client at about the same time and two different threads are processing
> the two requests and each one creates a 'client' object.  However,
> only one of the 'client' objects is allowed to exist for a given
> client.  Therefore, one of them is discarded as "stillborn".
>
> This has nothing to do with mixing Transarc and OpenAFS.
>
> Jeffrey Altman

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