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diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn index 47b8c84a3..7b600090a 100644 --- a/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn +++ b/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn @@ -8,13 +8,15 @@ available! * If a file is checked into git as a normal file and gets modified (or merged, etc), it will be converted into an annexed file. - See [[blog/day_7__bugfixes]] + See [[blog/day_7__bugfixes]]. * When you `git annex unlock` a file, it will immediately be re-locked. + See [[bugs/watcher_commits_unlocked_files]]. * Kqueue has to open every directory it watches, so too many directories will run it out of the max number of open files (typically 1024), and fail. I may need to fork off multiple watcher processes to handle this. + See [[bugs/Issue_on_OSX_with_some_system_limits]]. ## beyond Linux @@ -42,6 +44,8 @@ I'd also like to support OSX and if possible the BSDs. * [man page](http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kqueue&apropos=0&sektion=0&format=html) * <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/blob/master/src/watchdog/observers/kqueue.py> (good example program) + *kqueue is now supported* + * hfsevents ([haskell bindings](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hfsevents)) is OSX specific. @@ -71,9 +75,6 @@ I'd also like to support OSX and if possible the BSDs. - honor .gitignore, not adding files it excludes (difficult, probably needs my own .gitignore parser to avoid excessive running of git commands to check for ignored files) -- Possibly, when a directory is moved out of the annex location, - unannex its contents. (Does inotify tell us where the directory moved - to so we can access it?) ## the races @@ -125,6 +126,17 @@ Many races need to be dealt with by this code. Here are some of them. Not a problem; The removal event removes the old file from the index, and the add event adds the new one. +* Symlink appears, but is then deleted before it can be processed. + + Leads to an ugly message, otherwise no problem: + + ./me: readSymbolicLink: does not exist (No such file or directory) + + Here `me` is a file that was in a conflicted merge, which got + removed as part of the resolution. This is probably coming from the watcher + thread, which sees the newly added symlink (created by the git merge), + but finds it deleted (by the conflict resolver) by the time it processes it. + ## done - on startup, add any files that have appeared since last run **done** |