Fix race condition in maybe_download #846
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Fixes #845.
maybe_downloadonly checks if the file exists before acquiring the file lock, so multiple threads could pass the existence check concurrently, and then each will sequentially download the same file, resulting in redundant downloads. This PR adds an existence check after acquiring the file lock, so if multiple threads are concurrently downloading the same file, only one of them will actually perform the download and the others will shortcut.This is the code to reproduce:
Before the fix, this was the output:
With the fix, this is the output: