From: David Stainton <dstainton415@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 16:06:47 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Add comment about FUDGE_SECONDS and refer to our design doc
X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fpull%2F225%2Fhead;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git

Add comment about FUDGE_SECONDS and refer to our design doc
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diff --git a/src/allmydata/frontends/magic_folder.py b/src/allmydata/frontends/magic_folder.py
index 353b8fac..ab9b729e 100644
--- a/src/allmydata/frontends/magic_folder.py
+++ b/src/allmydata/frontends/magic_folder.py
@@ -492,6 +492,10 @@ class WriteFileMixin(object):
         finally:
             os.umask(old_mask)
 
+        # FUDGE_SECONDS is used to determine if another process
+        # has written to the same file concurrently. This is described
+        # in the Earth Dragon section of our design document:
+        # docs/proposed/magic-folder/remote-to-local-sync.rst
         os.utime(replacement_path_u, (now, now - self.FUDGE_SECONDS))
         if is_conflict:
             print "0x00 ------------ <><> is conflict; calling _rename_conflicted_file... %r %r" % (abspath_u, replacement_path_u)