Re: [Tracker] What invokes writeback actions and what process carries out these actions

[James Hurford <terrasea gmail com>]

On 21 August 2011 23:20, Adrien Bustany <abustany gnome org> wrote:
> Actually, updates from miner would also trigger writeback, but the
> miner calls a method called IgnoreNextUpdate (iirc) to avoid a
> mining/writeback loop. That mechanism will probably be replaced in the
> future though, since it's racy.
>
> Cheers
>
> Adrien

Thanks Adrien

It's difficult to think of the miner invoking the writebacks, due to
them being the source of the information, but I can see there maybe
occasions when this behaviour maybe desired.  That does seem like a
source of future bugs though.

James Hurford
terrasea gmail com