Hello,

 

I made a patch that adds fast locking mechanisms instead of seq file for freeradius-client.

 

This patch is based on putting the sequence number in the shared memory. Two approaches used to do a mutual exclusion for shared memory:

a) GCC builtin atomic memory access (only on Intel)

b) POSIX named semaphore

Fallback:

c) If nothing of the above available it fallbacks to a sequence file locks.

 

Originally I did it against radiusclient-ng, but looks that freeradius-client is a correct place. The patch works for freeradius-client 1.1.6 as well.

 

Here’s a patch and more detailed description:

 

http://developer.berlios.de/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=2810&group_id=1208

 

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Best Regards,

Alex Massover

VoIP R&D TL

Jajah Inc.