[OE-core] sharing DL_DIR?

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 11:21 -0800, Rich Pixley wrote:
> On 2/23/12 02:16 , Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 16:47 -0800, Rich Pixley wrote:
> >> What happens if two separate bitbake invocations both simultaneously
> >> attempt to download the same file?
> > The first will download it, the second will wait for it to finish, then
> > both will continue with the downloaded file.
> How does the second know that the first is in progress?

It won't be able to take the lock and the done stamp file doesn't exist
yet.

Cheers,

Richard