2013/9/2 johannes hanika <[email protected]>:
> no, that's exactly the race condition horror scenario i described earlier..
> if we write to that file we want to be sure we do that now and only in one
> thread at a time. if you just put it in a job you'll need to provide
> wrappers which force it to happen now and put a mutex around it etc.

Ok, looks like it was a bad idea to use a background job for this. The
safety is indeed a very strong point.

Let's drop this then except if you have a better idea to avoid this
long delay and freeze of the UI.

Thanks,
Pascal.

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