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diff --git a/doc/devblog/day_284__development.mdwn b/doc/devblog/day_284__development.mdwn index 1204d3ed3..7ecf68430 100644 --- a/doc/devblog/day_284__development.mdwn +++ b/doc/devblog/day_284__development.mdwn @@ -23,3 +23,11 @@ assistant is not being used. Looked into also cleaning up stale .git/annex/transfer/{upload,download}/ files (from interrupted transfers). But, since those are used as lock files, it's difficult to remove them in a concurrency safe way. + +Update: Unfortunately, I turned out to have stumbled over an apparent bug +in haskell's implementation of file locking. +<https://github.com/haskell/unix/issues/44> Had to work around that. + +Happily, the workaround also let me implement cleanup of stale transfer +info files, left behind when a git-annex process was interrupted. So, +.git/annex/transfer/ will entirely stop accumulating cruft! |