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Race condition after creating files

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Copying from #281

I’ve encountered an issue while renaming files over and over again. Sometimes, after writing to the disc, the resulted page/document might be nil which causes 404. As far as I see, this happens randomly. Sometimes it renames and returns the renamed file, sometimes it returns nil.

IMO, this is because site.process is not actually blocking. Sometimes it takes so much time to finish so that there occurs a race condition which makes newly created files not ready to be served.

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Created 7 years ago
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parkrcommented, Feb 8, 2017

Hey! So all of Jekyll is blocking, but when you run jekyll serve, we boot up two threads: one for the watcher (regenerates your site) and one for the HTTP server. It sounds like the presence of 2 threads is causing the confusion and overlap here.

To get around this, I would consider how you can achieve what you’re looking for by hooking into the site.process method via Jekyll::Hooks: http://jekyllrb.com/docs/plugins/#hooks

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mertkahyaoglucommented, Oct 21, 2017

Closed via #415

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