From 42edee90bfd597474cebdb932bff113dff4a57bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 04:00:09 +0000
Subject: fixed a bug in the wins database writer that caused the database to
 be written continuously rather than once every 5 seconds (at most).

also changed it to 20 seconds :)
(This used to be commit 1b07de7079e81da9c0b930bdc30ae0451b57d53a)
---
 source3/nmbd/nmbd_winsserver.c | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'source3/nmbd/nmbd_winsserver.c')

diff --git a/source3/nmbd/nmbd_winsserver.c b/source3/nmbd/nmbd_winsserver.c
index 48d27f7bae..1502dd8155 100644
--- a/source3/nmbd/nmbd_winsserver.c
+++ b/source3/nmbd/nmbd_winsserver.c
@@ -1524,9 +1524,11 @@ void initiate_wins_processing(time_t t)
 
   if (!lasttime)
     lasttime = t;
-  if (t - lasttime < 5)
+  if (t - lasttime < 20)
     return;
 
+  lasttime = t;
+
   if(!lp_we_are_a_wins_server())
     return;
 
@@ -1541,17 +1543,23 @@ void initiate_wins_processing(time_t t)
 /*******************************************************************
  Write out the current WINS database.
 ******************************************************************/
-
 void wins_write_database(void)
 {
   struct name_record *namerec;
   pstring fname, fnamenew;
-   
+  static int child_pid;
+
   FILE *fp;
    
   if(!lp_we_are_a_wins_server())
     return;
 
+  /* we will do the writing in a child process to ensure that the parent
+     doesn't block while this is done */
+  if ((child_pid=fork())) {
+	  return;
+  }
+
   pstrcpy(fname,lp_lockdir());
   trim_string(fname,NULL,"/");
   pstrcat(fname,"/");
-- 
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