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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2012-07-18 18:17:33 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2012-07-18 18:17:33 -0400
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@@ -10,6 +10,13 @@ all the other git clones, at both the git level and the key/value level.
on remotes, and transfer. But first, need to ensure that when a remote
receives content, and updates its location log, it syncs that update
out.
+* Transfer watching has a race on kqueue systems, which makes finished
+ fast transfers not be noticed by the TransferWatcher. Which in turn
+ prevents the transfer slot being freed and any further transfers
+ from happening. So, this approach is too fragile to rely on for
+ maintaining the TransferSlots. Instead, need [[todo/assistant_threaded_runtime]],
+ which would allow running something for sure when a transfer thread
+ finishes.
## longer-term TODO