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[Michael Widenius <michael.widenius@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Kristian Nielsen
<knielsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Michael Widenius <michael.widenius@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>>> 2. To protect access to master_info_index, eg. to prevent a Master_info from
>>> disappearing while it is accessed.
>>
>> When reading about this, I think it would be better to have a counter
>> in Master_info if someone is using it and only delete if if the
>> counter is zero. Would be trivial to add an increment of the counter
>> in get_master_info().
>>
>> The counter could either be protected by the LOCK_active_mi or one of
>> the mutexes in Master_info like data_lock.
>
> Sounds reasonable. Will you do a patch? I guess this is code from the
> multisource feature, so you are the one familiar with it (before
> multi-source, the Master_info could not be created and deleted dynamically,
> could it?)

I can start by doing a patch for protecting get_master_info.
Will do that tomorrow.

Regards,
Monty