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Utility Software

Utility software is software designed to help analyze, configure, optimize or maintain a computer. It is used to support the computer infrastructure - in contrast to application software, which is aimed at directly performing tasks that benefit ordinary users. However, utilities often form part of the application systems. For example, a batch job may run user-written code to update a database and may then include a step that runs a utility to back up the database, or a job may run a utility to compress a disk before copying files.

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ghost
ghost commented Jan 12, 2018

Hello,

I am working with the ZkAsyncSemaphore under zk-utils and I found that I need to pre-create the znodes in ZooKeeper or an exception will be thrown. Is there a defined utility function to do this? I found one in the commons library but it uses an older client.

EDIT:

Upon investigation, it seems that there is a function safeCreate within the semaphore that is meant to create the

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