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diff --git a/doc/tips/inside_dot_ikiwiki.mdwn b/doc/tips/inside_dot_ikiwiki.mdwn index b649636dc..1f76ce4bd 100644 --- a/doc/tips/inside_dot_ikiwiki.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/inside_dot_ikiwiki.mdwn @@ -63,3 +63,28 @@ To remove that user: I've not written actual utilities to do this yet because I've only needed to do it rarely, and the data I've wanted has been different each time. --[[Joey]] + +## the session database + +`.ikiwiki/sessions.db` is the session database. See the [[cpan CGI::Session]] +documentation for more details. + +## lockfiles + +In case you're curious, here's what the various lock files do. + +* `.ikiwiki/lockfile` is the master ikiwiki lock file. Ikiwiki takes this + lock before reading/writing state. +* `.ikiwiki/commitlock` is locked as a semophore, to disable the commit hook + from doing anything. +* `.ikiwiki/cgilock` is locked by the cgi wrapper, to ensure that only + one ikiwiki process is run at a time to handle cgi requests. + +## plugin state files + +Some plugins create other files to store their state. + +* `.ikiwiki/aggregate` is a plain text database used by the aggregate plugin + to record feeds and known posts. +* `.ikiwiki/xapian/` is created by the search plugin, and contains xapian-omega + configuration and the xapian database. |