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Thursday, May 21, 2026 (#141)

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References Futilities/v0.6/clade/Apps/ftm/Match/Mover (← links) 2026/05/20 (← links) 2026/05/22 (← links) Futilities/v0.6/clade/Sys/IO/Store/aux/Spider/Pair/@code/2026/05/22 (← links) Ferreteria/v0.6/clade/Sys/FileSys/Aspect/Ident/spex/PSpec/@code/rmv/2026/06/04 (← links)

FTM rewrite

• 13:37 Basic functionality now working. Some fiddly details mean it's not quite fit-for-purpose yet, but the hard part is done (and it's already got some improvements over the old version).

Was having a problem with a "too many open files" error (but only after a lot of file-activity, many minutes into a run); the problem was apparently that files were not being closed after copying or comparing (it was only one of those, not both; I just don't remember which). I added an indicator for how many files are currently open (counter maintained internally, not by a system call (is there a system call for this?)).