[Bro-Dev] [Bro-Commits] [git/bro] fastpath: Fixed a scriptland state issue that manifested especially badly on proxies. (5c3bf14)

[Seth Hall]

On Jul 22, 2013, at 2:21 PM, "Siwek, Jonathan Luke" <jsiwek at illinois.edu> wrote:

> What was the issue?  Maybe I'm reading the diff wrong, but the membership check should be implicit in the delete statement, so this change shouldn't function differently?  Or if it actually does, then there's probably still a bug in the core code.


That variable has &synchronized applied to it.  It causes tons of del messages to be sent over the communication code on clusters.

Yet another *very* difficult to find problem due to ambiguities brought up from the &synchronized attribute. :)

  .Seth

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