This seems to work pretty well.
Handled the process groups like this:
- git-annex processes started by the assistant for transfers are run in their
own process groups.
- otherwise, rely on the shell to allocate a process group for git-annex
There is potentially a problem if some other program runs git-annex
directly (not using sh -c) The program and git-annex would then be in
the same process group. If that git-annex starts a transfer and it's
canceled, the program would also get killed. May or may not be a desired
result.
Also, the new updateTransferInfo probably closes a race where it was
possible for the thread id to not be recorded in the transfer info, if
the transfer info file from the transfer process is read first.
I've convinced myself that nothing in DaemonStatus can deadlock,
as it always keepts the TMVar full. That was the only reason it was in the
Annex monad.
This should fix OSX/BSD issues with not noticing transfer information
files with kqueue. Now that threads are used, the thread can manage the
transfer slot allocation and deallocation by itself; much cleaner.
There's still a bug; if the child updates its transfer info file,
then the data from it will superscede the TransferInfo, losing the
info that we should wait on this child.