From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Sixt Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:52:10 +0200 Message-ID: <200904252052.10327.j6t@kdbg.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 25 20:53:52 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lxn0Z-0005Iv-UL for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:53:52 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753424AbZDYSwR (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:52:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753074AbZDYSwR (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:52:17 -0400 Received: from bsmtp.bon.at ([213.33.87.14]:35024 "EHLO bsmtp.bon.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751721AbZDYSwR (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:52:17 -0400 Received: from dx.sixt.local (unknown [93.83.142.38]) by bsmtp.bon.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C363A7EB4; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:52:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dx.sixt.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE9D4264E; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:52:10 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Samstag, 25. April 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > If you _don't_ do this patch, does > > [core] > fsyncobjectfiles = true > > hide the bug? Most likely not because our fsync() on Windows is a noop :( -- Hannes