Clean the standalone environment before running the su command
to run "sh". Otherwise, PATH leaked through, causing it to run
git-annex.linux/bin/sh, but GIT_ANNEX_DIR was not set,
which caused that script to not work:
[2022-10-26 15:07:02.145466106] (Utility.Process) process [938146] call: pkexec ["sh","-c","cd '/home/joey/tmp/git-annex.linux/r' && '/home/joey/tmp/git-annex.linux/git-annex' 'enable-tor' '1000'"]
/home/joey/tmp/git-annex.linux/bin/sh: 4: exec: /exe/sh: not found
Changed programPath to not use GIT_ANNEX_PROGRAMPATH,
but instead run the scripts at the top of GIT_ANNEX_DIR.
That works both when the standalone environment is set up, and when it's
not.
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The flush was only done Annex.run' to make sure that the queue was flushed
before git-annex exits. But, doing it there means that as soon as one
change gets queued, it gets flushed soon after, which contributes to
excessive writes to the database, slowing git-annex down.
(This does not yet speed git-annex up, but it is a stepping stone to
doing so.)
Database queues do not autoflush when garbage collected, so have to
be flushed explicitly. I don't think it's possible to make them
autoflush (except perhaps if git-annex sqitched to using ResourceT..).
The comment in Database.Keys.closeDb used to be accurate, since the
automatic flushing did mean that all writes reached the database even
when closeDb was not called. But now, closeDb or flushDb needs to be
called before stopping using an Annex state. So, removed that comment.
In Remote.Git, change to using quiesce everywhere that it used to use
stopCoProcesses. This means that uses on onLocal in there are just as
slow as before. I considered only calling closeDb on the local git remotes
when git-annex exits. But, the reason that Remote.Git calls stopCoProcesses
in each onLocal is so as not to leave git processes running that have files
open on the remote repo, when it's on removable media. So, it seemed to make
sense to also closeDb after each one, since sqlite may also keep files
open. Although that has not seemed to cause problems with removable
media so far. It was also just easier to quiesce in each onLocal than
once at the end. This does likely leave performance on the floor, so
could be revisited.
In Annex.Content.saveState, there was no reason to close the db,
flushing it is enough.
The rest of the changes are from auditing for Annex.new, and making
sure that quiesce is called, after any action that might possibly need
it.
After that audit, I'm pretty sure that the change to Annex.run' is
safe. The only concern might be that this does let more changes get
queued for write to the db, and if git-annex is interrupted, those will be
lost. But interrupting git-annex can obviously already prevent it from
writing the most recent change to the db, so it must recover from such
lost data... right?
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Trick the linker into not doing unncessary work searching for optimised
libraries that are not present, by symlinking the directories where
optimised libs would be to the main lib dir.
This reduces the ENOENT of git-annex init by about 1/2. The linker always
finds the files where it looks first time now. I have not looked at what
the wall clock speedup might be, it's probably rather small.
If a x86-64-v5 comes to be, the list will need to be extended. And there
may be other directories used on some machines that I have missed. Not done
for arm64 yet, or any uncommon architectures.
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Previous change caused them to be skipped. Probably when @RPATH is
included in the path, it's a path to a file that actually exists.
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This may or may not make the OSX build work on a newer version of OSX
than the one that's currently being used for release builds. I have not
been able to find good docs about how exactly to get back from such a
value to the actual path to the library that the linker would use.
nukeFile replaced with removeWhenExistsWith removeLink, which allows
using RawFilePath. Utility.Directory cannot use RawFilePath since setup
does not depend on posix.
This commit was sponsored by Graham Spencer on Patreon.
Had to split out some modules because getWorkingDirectory needs unix,
which is not a build-dep of configure.
This commit was sponsored by Brock Spratlen on Patreon.
hardlinks happened to work because it was a hard link to a symlink, but
it would have failed if eg git-annex-shell symlink did not exist,
perhaps because the Makefile was not run to build it. Or something like
that. Also, it seems like it worked by accident and the Makefile used to
ln -s.
This includes making Build.Standalone run LinuxMkLibs or OSXMkLibs
rather than doing that separately. Which is groundwork for a later
optimisation.
Also it simplified the code some.
Reduce the number of directories listed in libdirs, which makes the linker
check a lot less dead ends looking for directories.
Eliminated some directories that didn't really contain shared libraries,
or only contained the linker.
That left only 2, one in lib and one in usr/lib, so consolidate those two.
Doing it this way, rather than just consolidating all libs that might exist
into a single directory means that, if there are optimised versions of some
libs, eg in lib/subarch/foo.so, and lib/subarch2/foo.so, they don't get
moved around in a way that would make the linker pick the wrong one.
