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2020-08-08dir_idle: require Perl 5.22+ for kqueue
IO::KQueue requires us to use fileno(DIRHANDLE) for setting up kqueue watches. This use of fileno() is only supported since Perl 5.22, so BSD users on older Perl will have to fall back to old polling. This affects users of -watch, currently; but will affect other read-only Xapian users soon.
2020-08-01improve error handling on import fork / lock failures
v?fork failures seems to be the cause of locks not getting released in -watch. Ensure lock release doesn't get skipped in ->done for both v1 and v2 inboxes. We also need to do everything we can to ensure DB handles, pipes and processes get released even in the face of failure. While we're at it, make failures around `git update-server-info' non-fatal, since smart HTTP seems more popular anyways. v2 changes: - spawn: show failing command - ensure waitpid is synchronous for inotify events - teardown all fast-import processes on exception, not just the failing one - beef up lock_release error handling - release lock on fast-import spawn failure
2020-07-02inboxidle: avoid per-inbox anonymous subs
Anonymous subs cost over 5K each on x86-64. So prefer the less-recommended-but-still-documented way of using Linux::Inotify2::watch to register watchers. This also updates FakeInotify to detect modifications correctly when used on systems with neither IO::KQueue nor Linux::Inotify2.
2020-06-28ds: remove fields.pm usage
Since the removal of pseudo-hash support in Perl 5.10, the "fields" module no longer provides the space or speed benefits it did in 5.8. It also does not allow for compile-time checks, only run-time checks. To me, the extra developer overhead in maintaining "use fields" args has become a hassle. None of our non-DS-related code uses fields.pm, nor do any of our current dependencies. In fact, Danga::Socket (which DS was originally forked from) and its subclasses are the only fields.pm users I've ever encountered in the wild. Removing fields may make our code more approachable to other Perl hackers. So stop using fields.pm and locked hashes, but continue to document what fields do for non-trivial classes.
2020-06-28watch: remove Filesys::Notify::Simple dependency
Since we already use inotify and EVFILT_VNODE (kqueue) in -imapd, we might as well use them directly in -watch, too. This will allow public-inbox-watch to use PublicInbox::DS for timers to watch newsgroups/mailboxes and have saner signal handling in future commits.