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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>,
	Git ML <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: gc considered dangerous
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:43:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vskmoukcb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090209065919.GB13257@glandium.org> (Mike Hommey's message of "Mon, 9 Feb 2009 07:59:19 +0100")

Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:

> On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 12:00:57PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>> 
>> > My preliminary guess is that this code in pack-write.c needs to use the 
>> > lock file paradigm:
>> >
>> >         if (!index_name) {
>> > 		[...]
>> >         } else {
>> >                 unlink(index_name);
>> >                 fd = open(index_name, O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_WRONLY, 0600);
>> >         }
>> 
>> Whoa.  That particular code has been (and is still) correct.
>
> Don't both unlink and open fail in the case the index file is locked in
> Windows ?

Read the rest of the thread and read the code.

The index_file in question is not the file git-repack is telling
pack-write.c to unlink and open.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-09  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-08  2:47 gc considered dangerous Robin Rosenberg
2009-02-08 14:34 ` Robin Rosenberg
2009-02-08 14:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-08 16:04   ` Robin Rosenberg
2009-02-08 17:18     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-08 18:24     ` Steffen Prohaska
2009-02-08 19:37       ` Robin Rosenberg
2009-02-08 20:00   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-08 20:08     ` Robin Rosenberg
2009-02-08 20:10     ` Robin Rosenberg
2009-02-09  6:59     ` Mike Hommey
2009-02-09  7:43       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-02-08 20:09 ` Junio C Hamano

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