This bug mostly would happen when the downloads ran very fast or were
all failing (how I reproduced it), because there have to be two
downloads that finish very close to the same time to trigger the race.
So most users of -J probably would not see much impact from the bug.
Bugfix: When -J was enabled, getting files leaked a ever-growing number of
git cat-file processes.
(Since commit dd39e9e255)
The leak happened when mergeState called stopNonConcurrentSafeCoProcesses.
While stopNonConcurrentSafeCoProcesses usually manages to stop everything,
there was a race condition where cat-file processes were leaked. Because
catFileStop modifies Annex.catfilehandles in a non-concurrency safe way,
and could clobber modifications made in between. Which should have been ok,
since originally catFileStop was only used at shutdown.
Note the comment on catFileStop saying it should only be used when nothing
else is using the handles. It would be possible to make catFileStop
race-safe, but it should just not be used in a situation where a race is
possible. So I didn't bother.
Instead, the fix is just not to stop any processes in mergeState. Because
in order for mergeState to be called, dupState must have been run, and it
enables concurrency mode, stops any non-concurrent processes, and so all
processes that are running are concurrency safea. So there is no need to
stop them when merging state. Indeed, stopping them would be extra work,
even if there was not this bug.
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When non-concurrent git coprocesses have been started, setConcurrency
used to not stop them, and so could leak processes when enabling
concurrency, eg when forkState is called.
I do not think that ever actually happened, given where setConcurrency
is called. And it probably would only leak one of each process, since it
never downgrades from concurrent to non-concurrent.
As mentioned in commit 2bd778a46e, there
was mojibake when LANG=C.
Looking at parseFeedFromFile, it is very particular to read the file as
unicode. parseFeedString looks like it will accept any old String,
but a String that was read using the filesystem encoding will not in
fact have the right encoding.
I think this is a bug in the feed library and will file one.
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See comment for analysis.
At first I thought I'd need to convert all T.unpack in git-annex, but
luckily not -- so long as the Text is read from a file, the filesystem
encoding is applied and T.unpack is fine. It's only when using Feed
that the filesystem encoding is not applied.
While this fixes the crash, it does result in some mojibake, eg:
itemid=http://www.manager-tools.com/2014/01/choosing-a-company-work-chapter-7-���-questions/
Have not tracked that down, but it must be unrelated, because
I've verified that it roundtrips when using encodeUf8:
joey@darkstar:~/src/git-annex>LANG=C ghci Utility/FileSystemEncoding.hs
ghci> useFileSystemEncoding
ghci> Just f <- Text.Feed.Import.parseFeedFromFile "/home/joey/tmp/career_tools_podcasts.xml"
ghci> Just (_, x) = Text.Feed.Query.getItemId (Text.Feed.Query.feedItems f !! 0)
ghci> decodeBS (Data.Text.Encoding.encodeUtf8 x)
"http://www.manager-tools.com/2014/01/choosing-a-company-work-chapter-7-\56546\56448\56467-questions/"
ghci> writeFile "foo" $ decodeBS (Data.Text.Encoding.encodeUtf8 x)
Writes a file containing the ENDASH character.
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I saw a user open a forum post that looked like they had read this man
page, but were unaware of git-annex unlock, and were looking for its
functionality. They later deleted the post, probably when they found
git-annex unlock. Looking at this man page, it was a bit unclear about
the motivation for the command.
Yes, I'm warching... ;-)
While intended for converting URL keys added by addurl --fast to be
as if added by addurl --relaxed, it can also be used to remove size
from other types of keys. Although that is not likely to be useful
for checksummed keys, I suppose it could be used for WORM or other
non-checksum keys.
Specifying the --remove-size option does not prevent other migrations
from taking effect if there's a key upgrade to perform, or if the
backend has changed. So --backend=URL needs to be used to prevent
migrating an URL key to the default backend.
Note that it's not possible to use git-annex migrate to convert from a
non-URL key to an URL key, as URL keys cannot be generated, except by
addurl. So while this can get the same effect as --relaxed would have
when addurl --fast was used, when --fast was not used, it won't work, or
if --backend=URL is not used will remove the size but not prevent
checksum verification, which is not useful. Due to this complexity, I
decided not to mention it in the git-annex addurl man page.
Sponsored-by: Jochen Bartl on Patreon
git-lfs: Fix interoperability with gitlab's implementation of the git-lfs
protocol, which requests Content-Encoding chunked.
Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's Datalad project
