that doesn't exist, or cannot be read
The problem is its use of unsafeInterleaveIO, which causes its IO code
to run when the thunk is forced, outside any exception trapping the caller
may do.
Not yet tested and places git-annex-shell is run need to be modified to
pass the new field settings.
Note that rsyncServerSend was changed to fork, rather than directly exec
rsync, because it needs to keep the transfer lock held, and clean up the
transfer log when done.
The reason the DirWatcher had to wait for program termination was because
it used withINotify, so when it finished, its watcher threads were killed.
But since I have two DirWatcher threads now, that was not good, and could
perhaps explain the MVar problem I saw yesterday. In any case, fixed this
part of the code by making the DirWatcher return a handle that can be used
to stop it, and now the main Assistant thread is the only one calling
waitForTermination.
SampleMVar won't work; between getting the current value and changing
it, another thread could made a change, which would get lost.
TMVar works well; this update situation is handled by atomic transactions.
Note that, since this always pushes branch synced/master to the remote, it
assumes that master has already gotten all the commits that are on the
remote merged in. Otherwise, fast-forward prevention may prevent the push.
That's probably ok, because the next stage is to automatically detect
incoming pushes and merge.
This *may* now return Add or Delete Changes as appropriate. All I know
for sure is that it compiles.
I had hoped to avoid maintaining my own state about the content of the
directory tree, and rely on git to check what was changed. But I can't;
I need to know about new and deleted subdirectories to add them to the
watch list, and git doesn't deal with (empty) directories.
So, wrote all the code to scan directories, remember their past contents,
compare with current contents, generate appropriate Change events, and
update bookkeeping info appropriately.
Could not reproduce the build failure I had seen related to this,
but the numbers were wrong with statfs64. Probably pulling from the wrong
place in the structure. statvfs seems to work..
The idea, not yet done, is to use this to detect when a file
has an old change time, and avoid expensive restaging of the file.
If git-annex watch keeps track of the last time it finished a full scan,
then any symlink that is older than that time must have been scanned
before, so need not be added. (Relying on moving, copying, etc of a file
all updating its change time.)
Anyway, this info is available for free since inotify already checks it,
so it might as well make it available.