Re: Rygel removes media file unexpectedly

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

> > To my surprise I can actually reproduce this.
> > Rygel.MediaExport.WritableDbContainer.remove_child() gets called and
> > it just goes and deletes the file. This does not happen if a file is
> > only removed (and nothing is copied), but it does so fairly
> > consistently (close to 100% for me) if you do rm-then-cp as Konstantin
> > says.
>
> I suppose this goes away (or gets more difficult) if you set 
> monitor-grace-timeout to 0 in MediaExport?

No, it can't.

> > I'm not familiar with this part of the code so I'm not sure if
> > remove_child() should not be called or if it should not just do
> > that... Jens?
>
> Probably it should call remove_child_tracked because the file monitor 
> already knows that the file is gone on-disk (I have not checked whether 
> that in turn would call remove_child). The Functionality was added for 
> the UPnP destroy call.

I checked and we do call remove_child_tracked which then calls
remove_object. Hrm. We need to remove the file when called via UPnP,
tricky. Could work around by calling the tracking code manually...