The test uses `WithTimeout` to create a context that cancels the List
operation after a given delay. Several backends internally use a derived
child context created using WithCancel.
The cancellation of a context first closes the done channel of the
context (here: the `WithTimeout` context) and _afterwards_ propagates
the cancellation to child contexts (here: the `WithCancel` context).
Therefor if the List implementation uses a child context, then it may
take a moment until that context is also cancelled. Thus give the
context cancellation a moment to propagate.
When transferring a repository from S3 to, for example, a local disk
then all empty folders will be missing.
When saving files, the missing intermediate folders are created
automatically. Therefore, missing directories can be ignored by the
`List()` operation.
Conceptually the backend configuration should be validated when creating
or opening the backend, but not when filling in information from
environment variables into the configuration.
This unified construction removes most backend-specific code from
global.go. The backend registry will also enable integration tests to
use custom backends if necessary.
In order to change the backend initialization in `global.go` to be able
to generically call cfg.ApplyEnvironment() for supported backends, the
`interface{}` returned by `ParseConfig` must contain a pointer to the
configuration.
An alternative would be to use reflection to convert the type from
`interface{}(Config)` to `interface{}(*Config)` (from value to pointer
type). However, this would just complicate the type mess further.
This function casts its argument to int32 before passing it to the
system call, so that big-endian CPUs read the lower rather than the
upper 32 bits of the pid.
This also gets rid of the last import of "unsafe" in the Unix build.
I changed syscall to x/sys/unix while I was at it, to remove one more
import line. The constants and types there are aliases for their syscall
counterparts.
restic must be able to refresh lock files in time. However, large
uploads over slow connections can cause the lock refresh to be stuck
behind the large uploads and thus time out.
