cloudant/couch_replicator — pull request #26 by davisp (2013-04-02 23:20:39+00:00)
Title: Fix replication deadlock after HTTP retries

An HTTP failure in the open_doc_revs can lead to a replication deadlock
if the retry happens while parsing the multipart/mime response. The
UserFun callback can end up attempting to PUT a request using an
attachment reader from the failed request while the pid that invoked
open_doc_revs will never see the started_open_doc_revs message which
indicates a retry has happened.

This just spawns a middleman process so that the process that invoked
open_doc_revs can listen for the response from the user function as well
as the started_open_doc_revs message to handle retries appropriately.