Re: Deleting files on temporary network dropouts

Tõivo Leedjärv <[email protected]> Fri, 9 Jan 2026 14:49:48 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.network.unison.general
Message-ID <CAALvpZQAc8HYmXT56GBhAxEKUjw4NUv3yRQ1dARDaEeqc+kXGg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 at 14:44, Mo B <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> What does unison do to create the proposed plan before I run the (g)o? Does it do ls on each directory? Does it run stat on each known file?

Basically this.

> I tried that, ran ls and stat on a remote file in a loop while switching networks. The output was blocking, then resuming after a while but I've never seen a
> ls: cannot access
> like it is returned for non-existing files.

This is interesting. If you are seeing the weirdness only with Unison
and noth with other tools/ls/stat then I'd look into tracing system
calls.

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