diskstore BGSAVE should work now

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-Redis TODO and Roadmap
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+Redis TODO
+----------
+
+WARNING: are you a possible Redis contributor?
+         Before implementing what is listed what is listed in this file
+         please drop a message in the Redis google group or chat with
+         antirez or pietern on irc.freenode.org #redis to check if the work
+         is already in progress and if the feature is still interesting for
+         us, and *how* exactly this can be implemented to have good changes
+         of a merge. Otherwise it is probably wasted work! Thank you
+
+DISKSTORE TODO
+==============
+
+* Check that 00/00 and ff/ff exist at startup, otherwise exit with error.
+* Implement sync flush option, where data is written synchronously on disk when a command is executed.
+* Implement MULTI/EXEC as transaction abstract API to diskstore.c, with transaction_start, transaction_end, and a journal to recover.
+* Stop BGSAVE thread on shutdown and any other condition where the child is killed during normal bgsave.
+* Use a mutex to log on the file, so that we don't get overlapping messages, or even better make sure to use a single write against it.
+* Fix RANDOMKEY to really do something interesting
+* Fix DBSIZE to really do something interesting
+* Add a DEBUG command to check if an entry is or not in memory currently
+* Prevent io jobs from running while there is a BGSAVE thread.
+
+REPLICATION
+===========
+
+* PING between master and slave from time to time, so we can subject the
+master-slave link to timeout, and detect when the connection is gone even
+if the socket is still up.
+
+OPTIMIZATIONS
+=============

 
 

-VERSION 2.2 TODO (Optimizations and latency)
-============================================
-
-* Lower the CPU usage.
-* Lower the RAM usage everywhere possible.
-* Specially encoded Sets (like Hashes).
-* Implement an UDP interface for low-latency operations.
-* What about a special coding that is about storing the "rdb" serialized format instead of the actual value? This can be used when we have LRU in order to super-compress data into memory, for data not accessed frequetly. It's a VM-alike strategy but fully in memory, may reduce the space to hold some dataset in an impressive way. Trivial to implement.
-* Another idea: LRU does not need to be super precise right? Maybe it's a good idea to just put into the skiplist implementing the LRU just the pointer to the key without evne incr/decr business, nor the need to remove the pointer when the key is deleted. There is to think more about that.
-
-VERSION 2.x TODO
-================
-
-* BRPOPLPUSH
-* Save dataset / fsync() on SIGTERM
-* Change the implementation of ZCOUNT to use the augmented skiplist in order to be much faster.
-
-Virtual Memory optimizations:
-* Use multiple open FDs against the VM file, one for thread.
-* Check what happens performance-wise if instead of creating threads again and again the same threads are reused forever. Note: this requires a way to disable this clients in the child, but waiting for empty new jobs queue can be enough.
-* Implement LEN, PEEK, POKE, SETBIT, GETBIT
-
-OTHER IMPORTANT THINGS THAT WILL BE ADDED BUT I'M NOT SURE WHEN
-===============================================================
-
-BIG ONES:
-
-* Specially encoded memory-saving integer sets.
-* A command to export a JSON dump (there should be mostly working patch needing major reworking).
-* Specially encoded sets of integers (this includes a big refactoring providing an higher level layer for Sets manipulation)
-
-SMALL ONES:
-
-* If sizeof(double) == sizeof(void*) we could store the double value of sorted sets directly in place of the pointer instead of allocating it in the heap.
-* Delete on writes against expire policy should only happen after argument parsing for commands doing their own arg parsing stuff.
-* Give errors when incrementing a key that does not look like an integer, when providing as a sorted set score something can't be parsed as a double, and so forth.
-* MSADD (n keys) (n values). See this thread in the Redis google group: http://groups.google.com/group/redis-db/browse_thread/thread/e766d84eb375cd41
-* Don't save empty lists / sets / zsets on disk with snapshotting.
-* Remove keys when a list / set / zset reaches length of 0.
-* An option to exec a command slave-side if the master connection is lost: even cooler: if the script returns "0" the slave elects itself as master, otherwise continue trying to reconnect.
-* PING the master from time to time to check if it's gone.
+* SORT: Don't copy the list into a vector when BY argument is constant.
+* Write the hash table size of every db in the dump, so that Redis can resize the hash table just one time when loading a big DB.
+* Read-only mode for slaves.

 
 

-THE "MAYBE" TODO LIST: things that may or may not get implemented
-=================================================================
+KNOWN BUGS
+==========

 
 

-Most of this can be seen just as proposals, the fact they are in this list
-it's not a guarantee they'll ever get implemented ;)
+* What happens in the following scenario:
+    1) We are reading an AOF file.
+    2) SETEX FOO 5 BAR
+    3) APPEND FOO ZAP
+    What happens if between 1 and 2 for some reason (system under huge load
+    or alike) too many time passes? We should prevent expires while the
+    AOF is loading.

 
 

-* Move dict.c from hash table to skip list, in order to avoid the blocking resize operation needed for the hash table.
-* FORK command (fork()s executing the commands received by the current
-  client in the new process). Hint: large SORTs can use more cores,
-  copy-on-write will avoid memory problems.
-* DUP command? DUP srckey dstkey, creates an exact clone of srckey value in dstkey.
-* SORT: Don't copy the list into a vector when BY argument is constant.
-* Write the hash table size of every db in the dump, so that Redis can resize the hash table just one time when loading a big DB.
-* LOCK / TRYLOCK / UNLOCK as described many times in the google group
-* Replication automated tests
-* Byte Array type (BA prefixed commands): BASETBIT BAGETBIT BASETU8 U16 U32 U64 S8 S16 S32 S64, ability to atomically INCRBY all the base types. BARANGE to get a range of bytes as a bulk value, BASETRANGE to set a range of bytes.
-* zmalloc() should avoid to add a private header for archs where there is some other kind of libc-specific way to get the size of a malloced block. Already done for Mac OS X.
-* Read-only mode.
-* Pattern-matching replication.
-* Add an option to relax the delete-expiring-keys-on-write semantic *denying* replication and AOF when this is on? Can be handy sometimes, when using Redis for non persistent state, but can create problems. For instance should rename and move also "move" the timeouts? How does this affect other commands?
-* Multiple BY in SORT.