Github user anew commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-tephra/pull/53#discussion_r138534049
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tephra-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tephra/persist/AbstractTransactionLog.java
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@@ -211,26 +212,36 @@ private void sync() throws IOException {
// prevent writer being dereferenced
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I am not sure why this is needed. As long as this method is running, there
is a stack frame (= a GC root) that has a reference to this, and hence to its
members. Anybody know why this is here?
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