fix: Delay applying when reclaimDelay is disabled because of clock synchronization

Author: Llorx

README.md

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ import { Persistency } from "persistency";
 
 const persistency = new Persistency({
     folder: "/path/to/data/folder",
-    reclaimTimeout: 10000 // Milliseconds. Optional. 10 seconds by default. Set to 0 or negative to directly delete old entries without any waiting
+    reclaimDelay: 10000 // Milliseconds. Optional. 10 seconds by default. Set to 0 or negative to directly delete old entries without any waiting
 });
 
 // The library works with buffers, so you can use any serialization library, like pacopack

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "persistency",
-  "version": "1.0.1",
+  "version": "1.0.2",
   "description": "The lightweight resilient persistency library",
   "main": "lib/",
   "types": "lib/types",

src/Persistency.ts

@@ -71,7 +71,14 @@ export class Persistency {
         };
         this.entriesFile = Path.join(options.folder, "entries.db");
         this.dataFile = Path.join(options.folder, "data.db");
-        this.reclaimTimeout = options.reclaimTimeout != null ? options.reclaimTimeout : 10000;
+        if (options.reclaimDelay == null) {
+            this.reclaimDelay = 10000;
+        } else if (options.reclaimDelay > 0) {
+            this.reclaimDelay = options.reclaimDelay;
+        } else {
+            this.reclaimDelay = 0;
+            this._context.now = () => 0; // Avoids overhead and applying delays because of clock synchronizing forwards/backwards
+        }
         this._fd = this._loadDataSync();
         this._checkReclaim();
         this._compact();