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| -rw-r--r-- | DEVELOPERNOTES | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | vdrnfofs/vdrnfofs.py | 1 |
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diff --git a/DEVELOPERNOTES b/DEVELOPERNOTES new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b990dd4 --- /dev/null +++ b/DEVELOPERNOTES @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Fuse might call read(...) on the file class from multiple threads, causing +a race condition with the underlying seek/read operations. + +Using locking here seems to make the file access slower, than just disabling +the multithreading in Fuse with fs.multithreading = False. + +A thread-local storage doesn't help either, because Fuse doesn't seem to +reuse threads, but might create new threads for each read operation. diff --git a/vdrnfofs/vdrnfofs.py b/vdrnfofs/vdrnfofs.py index db3a247..67a44e1 100644 --- a/vdrnfofs/vdrnfofs.py +++ b/vdrnfofs/vdrnfofs.py @@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ def main(): version = "%prog " + fuse.__version__ fs = VdrNfoFs(version=version, usage=usage, dash_s_do='setsingle') + fs.multithreaded = False fs.parser.add_option(mountopt="video", default='', help="The video directory containing the VDR recordings") fs.parser.add_option(mountopt="log", default='', help="The log file (default = console)") fs.parser.add_option(mountopt="loglevel", default='info', help="The log level (debug, info, warning or error)") |