Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix copying/moving of metadata where source/dest metafile are not yet read

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 16:42 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> The attached patch tries to fix moving/copying of metadata if the source
> or destination metafile are not yet read. I'd like to get some feedback
> whether the overall architecture/resolution proposal looks sane. Maybe
> people familiar with async APIs do see some shortcomings/issues?
> 
> One question remains, though:
> What should we do if the metadata reading fails? For now, the copy
> process stays in pending_copies, possibly forever.

Looks good to commit. Also add a comment at the top about the dependency
problems that we discussed in this thread, so we won't forget them if
anyone works on this in the future.

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