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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. |