"unfairness" of juju/mutex

[Nate Finch]

Just for historical reference.  The original implementation of the new OS
mutex used flock until Dave mentioned that it presented problems with file
management (files getting renamed, deleted, etc).

In general, I'm definitely on the side of using flock, though I don't think
that necessarily solves our starvation problem, it depends on how flock is
implemented and the specific behavior of our units.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/juju-dev/attachments/20161117/b3f8666a/attachment.html>