Fix race condition in retrieveFileList() #115
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… the mutex, allowing the retrieveFileList method use a single lock.
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…adovskyb/watcher#115 for panic interface{} conversion and race condition
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I have been getting a
fatal error: sync: unlock of unlocked mutexwhen using the package in my setup, although I have not been able to reproduce it in isolation yet. However, implementing this change fixes the panic.Unlocking the mutex inside of a locking method introduces a race condition. This change creates private methods that do the operations of the
Remove()andRemoveRecursive()methods, but without the mutex locks. This allowsretrieveFileList()to call them without unlocking the mutex first.Remove()andRemoveRecursive()are then updated to call the private methods instead of doing the processing themselves.