unlocker

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unlocker is a utiltity for unlocking stale locked snippet requests. It is the wicked-stepsister of the Concierge family. It will attempt to unlock all locked snippet requests that are older than hours. If ora_trace_fetch is running and it dies while processing a request, it will leave a bunch of requests in limbo, because it had reserved them and then died before it could free them. The unlocker is set to run as a cron job, and unlocks any requests that it deems to be stale. That way they are freed up to be processed by ora_trace_fetch again.

This program is meant to be run out of cron(or some other periodic invocation method). Its function is to recover requests from unexpected crashes in ora_trace_fetch(bad!!!).

This program is untested as of 2002/05/15

Initial version by DavidK 2002/05/15

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