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Joey Hess 2020-05-28 12:22:52 -04:00
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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="joey"
subject="""comment 6"""
date="2020-05-28T16:15:34Z"
content="""
So the idea here is to add a PREPARE-NONCONCURRENT or whatever for the
external to use to signal that it's not able to do anything because another
one is already running concurrently.
If the first instance that git-annex starts up responds that way, I suppose
it would just be treated the same as PREPARE-FAILURE.
So, if an external is being used for one git-annex command, another
git-annex command that also needs to use it would just fail to start it,
and so fail entirely.
Just for example, git annex whereis needs to start up the external program
to check WHEREIS, and would need to fail if it responded PREPARE-NONCONCURRENT.
So a long-running git-annex copy (or even the assistant) would then prevent
other git-annex commands from working.
So, seem this is blocked on
[[todo/external_remote_querying_transition]].
I'm also not really sure it's worth implementing this, is it really going
to be useful compared with external remote programs doing their own locking
around whatever operations cannot be run concurrently?
"""]]