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* lifted out the kqueue and inotify to a generic DirWatcher interfaceGravatar Joey Hess2012-06-18
| | | | | Kqueue code for dispatching events is not tested and probably doesn't build.
* plumb file status through to event handlersGravatar Joey Hess2012-06-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The idea, not yet done, is to use this to detect when a file has an old change time, and avoid expensive restaging of the file. If git-annex watch keeps track of the last time it finished a full scan, then any symlink that is older than that time must have been scanned before, so need not be added. (Relying on moving, copying, etc of a file all updating its change time.) Anyway, this info is available for free since inotify already checks it, so it might as well make it available.
* better optimisation of add checkGravatar Joey Hess2012-06-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Now really only done in the startup scan. It turns out to be quite hard for event handlers to know when the startup scan is complete. I tried to make addWatch pass that info, but found threading the state very difficult. For now, a quick hack, using the fast flag. Note that it's actually possible for inotify events to come in while the startup scan is still ongoing. Due to my hack, the expensive check will be done for files added in such inotify events.
* fix bug that turned files already in git into symlinksGravatar Joey Hess2012-06-12
| | | | | | This requires a relatively expensive test at file add time to see if it's in git already. But it can be optimised to only happen during the startup scan.
* add a flag indicating if an event was synthesized during initial dir scanGravatar Joey Hess2012-06-12
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* update message based on user feedbackGravatar Joey Hess2012-06-07
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* refactorGravatar Joey Hess2012-06-06
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* build watch on non-linux, just don't do anythingGravatar Joey Hess2012-06-06
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* handle running out of watch descriptorsGravatar Joey Hess2012-06-06
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* ignore .gitignore and .gitattributesGravatar Joey Hess2012-06-06
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* refactorGravatar Joey Hess2012-06-04
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* deletionGravatar Joey Hess2012-06-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a new file is annexed, a deletion event occurs when it's moved away to be replaced by a symlink. Most of the time, there is no problimatic race, because the same thread runs the add event as the deletion event. So, once the symlink is in place, the deletion code won't run at all, due to existing checks that a deleted file is really gone. But there is a race at startup, as then the inotify thread is running at the same time as the main thread, which does the initial tree walking and annexing. It would be possible for the deletion inotify to run in a perfect race with the addition, and remove the newly added symlink from the git cache. To solve this race, added event serialization via a MVar. We putMVar before running each event, which blocks if an event is already running. And when an event finishes (or crashes!), we takeMVar to free the lock. Also, make rm -rf not spew warnings by passing --ignore-unmatch when deleting directories.
* refactorGravatar Joey Hess2012-06-04
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* workaround other part of moved directory problemGravatar Joey Hess2012-06-04
| | | | | | | | | | | This fixes the scenario where: * directory foo is moved away (and still watched) * a new directory foo is made * file (or directory) foo/bar is created * the old directory's file (or directory) "bar" is deleted We don't want a deletion event for foo/bar in this case.
* add explict test that a closed file even is on a regular fileGravatar Joey Hess2012-06-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are two reasons for this test. First, there could be a fifo or other non-regular file that was closed. Second, this test avoids ugliness when a subdirectory is moved out of the top of the watch directory to elsewhere, and a file added to it. Since the subdirectory has moved, the file won't be present under the old location, and nothing will be done. I cannot find a way to stop watching such directories, at least not without a lot of pain. The inotify interface in Haskell doesn't make it easy to stop watching a given subdirectory when it's moved out; it would require keeping a map of all watch handles that is shared between threads. This workaround avoids the problem in most cases; the only remaining case being deletion of a file from a moved subdirectory.
* add events for symlink creation and directory removalGravatar Joey Hess2012-06-04
| | | | | | | | | | Improved the inotify code, so it will also notice directory removal and symlink creation. In the watch code, optimised away a stat of a file that's being added, that's done by Command.Add.start. This is the reason symlink creation is handled separately from file creation, since during initial tree walk at startup, a stat was already done, and can be reused.
* noopGravatar Joey Hess2012-04-21
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* in which I discover voidGravatar Joey Hess2012-04-21
| | | | void :: Functor f => f a -> f () -- ah, of course that's useful :)
* allow add or del events to be ignoredGravatar Joey Hess2012-04-12
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* allow excluding directories from being watchedGravatar Joey Hess2012-04-12
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* don't fall over broken linksGravatar Joey Hess2012-04-12
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* add waitForTerminationGravatar Joey Hess2012-04-11
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* recursive inotify thingGravatar Joey Hess2012-04-11
Recursive inotify has beaten me before, with its bad design and races, but not this time! (I think.) This is able to follow the strongest filesystem traffic I can throw at it, and robustly notices every file add and delete. Mostly that's down to Haskell having a quite nice threaded inotify library (that does its own buffering). A key insight was realizing that the inotify directory add race could be dealt with by scanning for files inside newly added directories. TODO: Add support for freebsd/osx kqueue; see http://hackage.haskell.org/package/kqueue Can a git-annex-monitor be far off?