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

[James Hurford <terrasea gmail com>]

On 21 August 2011 23:44, Adrien Bustany <abustany gnome org> wrote:

> You're perfectly right, it's not desired.
> I actually said rubbish in my last mail: the IgnoreNextUpdate call is
> on the miner, not the store (sorry for the confusion). So the process
> is:
> 1. Process X write a change to tracker store affecting a writeback
>   property for file F
> 2. The store calls IgnoreNextUpdate(F) on the FS miner
> 3. The store calls the writeback process to write the actual changes to
>   the file
> 4. The miner sees the update, but also knows that it should ignore it
Thank you again Adrien

Ok, yes I can see that you can't avoid dealing with this scenario, as
long as there is a writeback action.  No matter what you do, you have
to notify the other side about the update/writeback taking place,
else, as you say, you will get a read write loop going on.  I'll keep
this in mind.

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James Hurford
terrasea gmail com