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Without this change, nix build processes will not drop the locks for derivation goals which have already been built by another process when the current process gets round to building them. This means the locks are held until the process terminates. If there are other nix build processes in a similar state, they will also try to acquire the same locks when they try to build the same derivation, and so will wait until the lock holder terminates (which might be a very long time if it has a lot to build). In some pathological cases, those processes might be holding their own locks on other derivations due to the same issue, and this can lead to deadlock. Resolves #6468
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