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Probably won't be doing any big coding on the git-annex assistant in the
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upcoming week, as I'll be traveling and/or slightly ill enough that I can't
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fully get into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)">flow</a>.
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There was a new Yesod release this week, which required minor changes to
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make the webapp build with it. I managed to keep the old version of Yesod
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also supported, and plan to keep that working so it can be built with the
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version of Yesod available in, eg, Linux distributions. TBD how much pain
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that will involve going forward.
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I'm mulling over how to support stopping/pausing transfers. The problem
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is that if the assistant is running a transfer in one thread, and the
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webapp is used to cancel it, killing that thread won't necessarily stop the
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transfer, because, at least in Haskell's thread model, killing a thread
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does not kill processes started by the thread (like rsync).
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So one option is to have the transfer thread run a separate git-annex
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process, which will run the actual transfer. And killing that process will
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stop the transfer nicely. However, using a separate git-annex process means
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a little startup overhead for each file transferred (I don't know if it'd
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be enough to matter). Also, there's the problem that git-annex is sometimes
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not installed in PATH (wish I understood why cabal does that), which
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makes it kind of hard for it to run itself. (It can't simply fork, sadly.
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See past horrible pain with forking and threads.)
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The other option is to change the API for git-annex remotes, so that
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their `storeKey` and `retrieveKeyFile` methods return a pid of the program
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that they run. When they *do* run a program.. not all remotes do. This
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seems like it'd make the code in the remotes hairier, and it is also asking
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for bugs, when a remote's implementation changes. Or I could go
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lower-level, and make every place in the utility libraries that forks a
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process record its pid in a per-thread MVar. Still seems to be asking for
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bugs.
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Oh well, at least git-annex is already crash-safe, so once I figure out
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how to kill a transfer process, I can kill it safely. :)
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