From 1a7536c0f92063ccb36b43850c6ef8c75c9f84df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Leeds Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 18:30:10 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] man/ostree.repo-config: Document locking options This commit documents the "locking" and "lock-timeout-secs" options which have been around for a few releases. Closes: #1737 Approved by: jlebon --- man/ostree.repo-config.xml | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/ostree.repo-config.xml b/man/ostree.repo-config.xml index dc126d65..8942a00b 100644 --- a/man/ostree.repo-config.xml +++ b/man/ostree.repo-config.xml @@ -198,6 +198,23 @@ Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. + + locking + Boolean value controlling whether or not OSTree does + repository locking internally. This uses file locks and is + hence for multiple process exclusion (e.g. Flatpak and OSTree + writing to the same repository separately). This is enabled by + default since 2018.5. + + + + + lock-timeout-secs + Integer value controlling the number of seconds to + block while attempting to acquire a lock (see above). A value + of -1 means block indefinitely. The default value is 30. + +