[SR-Users] TM question

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

On 9/8/10 11:26 AM, Alex Balashov wrote:
> Daniel,
>
> On 09/08/2010 04:20 AM, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
>
>> have you added some xlogs to see where it ends the execution for that
>> case?
>>
>> If you can run the config with devel version, then load debugger
>> module and enable execution trace.
>
> I have found the problem.  It was a bug on my side that stemmed from 
> my failure to correctly understand the documentation for 
> t_lookup_request().  I believe it is written in an ambiguous way, even 
> though the mistake is surely mine.
>
> The docs say:
>
>    Checks if a transaction exists. Returns a positive value if so,
>    negative otherwise. Most likely you will not want to use it, as a
>    typical application of a look-up is to introduce a new transaction
>    if none was found. However this is safely (atomically) done using
>    t_newtran."
>
> To me, this contains the implicit suggestion that a transaction will 
> be created by calling t_lookup_request() if it does not already exist. 
>  I was in fact quite mistaken in this and took some measures that 
> resulted in bizarre outcomes.
>
you can improve the docs if not clear, git is yours :-)

Cheers,
Daniel

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