This file was never truly necessary and has never actually been used in
the history of Tailscale's open source releases.
A Brief History of AUTHORS files
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The AUTHORS file was a pattern developed at Google, originally for
Chromium, then adopted by Go and a bunch of other projects. The problem
was that Chromium originally had a copyright line only recognizing
Google as the copyright holder. Because Google (and most open source
projects) do not require copyright assignemnt for contributions, each
contributor maintains their copyright. Some large corporate contributors
then tried to add their own name to the copyright line in the LICENSE
file or in file headers. This quickly becomes unwieldy, and puts a
tremendous burden on anyone building on top of Chromium, since the
license requires that they keep all copyright lines intact.
The compromise was to create an AUTHORS file that would list all of the
copyright holders. The LICENSE file and source file headers would then
include that list by reference, listing the copyright holder as "The
Chromium Authors".
This also become cumbersome to simply keep the file up to date with a
high rate of new contributors. Plus it's not always obvious who the
copyright holder is. Sometimes it is the individual making the
contribution, but many times it may be their employer. There is no way
for the proejct maintainer to know.
Eventually, Google changed their policy to no longer recommend trying to
keep the AUTHORS file up to date proactively, and instead to only add to
it when requested: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors.
They are also clear that:
> Adding contributors to the AUTHORS file is entirely within the
> project's discretion and has no implications for copyright ownership.
It was primarily added to appease a small number of large contributors
that insisted that they be recognized as copyright holders (which was
entirely their right to do). But it's not truly necessary, and not even
the most accurate way of identifying contributors and/or copyright
holders.
In practice, we've never added anyone to our AUTHORS file. It only lists
Tailscale, so it's not really serving any purpose. It also causes
confusion because Tailscalars put the "Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS" header
in other open source repos which don't actually have an AUTHORS file, so
it's ambiguous what that means.
Instead, we just acknowledge that the contributors to Tailscale (whoever
they are) are copyright holders for their individual contributions. We
also have the benefit of using the DCO (developercertificate.org) which
provides some additional certification of their right to make the
contribution.
The source file changes were purely mechanical with:
git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/\(Tailscale Inc &\) AUTHORS/\1 contributors/g'
Updates #cleanup
Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
In Android, we are prompting the user to select a Taildrop directory when they first receive a Taildrop: we block writes on Taildrop dir selection. This means that we cannot use Dir inside managerOptions, since the http request would not get the new Taildrop extension. This PR removes, in the Android case, the reliance on m.opts.Dir, and instead has FileOps hold the correct directory.
This expands FileOps to be the Taildrop interface for all file system operations.
Updates tailscale/corp#29211
Signed-off-by: kari-ts <kari@tailscale.com>
restore tstest
Previously, the test simply relied on:
defer close()
to cleanup file handles.
This works fine on Unix-based systems,
but not on Windows, which dislikes deleting files
where an open file handle continues to exist.
Fix the test by explicitly closing the file handle
after we are done with the resource.
Updates tailscale/corp#14772
Signed-off-by: Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>
While the previous logic was correct, it did not perform well.
Resuming is a dance between the client and server, where
1. the client requests hashes for a partial file,
2. the server then computes those hashes,
3. the client computes hashes locally and compares them.
4. goto 1 while the partial file still has data
While step 2 is running, the client is sitting idle.
While step 3 is running, the server is sitting idle.
By streaming over the block hash immediately after the server
computes it, the client can start checking the hash,
while the server works on the next hash (in a pipelined manner).
This performs dramatically better and also uses less memory
as we don't need to hold a list of hashes, but only need to
handle one hash at a time.
There are two detriments to this approach:
* The HTTP API relies on a JSON stream,
which is not a standard REST-like pattern.
However, since we implement both client and server,
this is fine.
* While the stream is on-going, we hold an open file handle
on the server side while the file is being hashed.
On really slow streams, this could hold a file open forever.
Updates tailscale/corp#14772
Signed-off-by: Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>
Co-authored-by: Rhea Ghosh <rhea@tailscale.com>
File resumption requires keeping partial files around for some time,
but we must still eventually delete them if never resumed.
Thus, we implement asynchronous file deletion, which could
spawn a background goroutine to delete the files.
We also use the same mechanism for deleting files on Windows,
where a file can't be deleted if there is still an open file handle.
We can enqueue those with the asynchronous file deleter as well.
Updates tailscale/corp#14772
Signed-off-by: Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>
We add the following API:
* type FileChecksums
* type Checksum
* func Manager.PartialFiles
* func Manager.HashPartialFile
* func ResumeReader
The Manager methods provide the ability to query for partial files
and retrieve a list of checksums for a given partial file.
The ResumeReader function is a helper that wraps an io.Reader
to discard content that is identical locally and remotely.
The FileChecksums type represents the checksums of a file
and is safe to JSON marshal and send over the wire.
Updates tailscale/corp#14772
Signed-off-by: Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>
Co-authored-by: Rhea Ghosh <rhea@tailscale.com>
Will Norris
kari-ts
Brad Fitzpatrick
Joe Tsai