Re: what's the current wisdom on git over NFS/CIFS?

[Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>]

Dmitry Potapov schrieb:
> On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 08:14:46AM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> (We don't yet have an implementation of fsync() :-( )
> 
> Why?

Nobody cared. ;)

> It appears rather straightforward to me. Here is a patch that
> implements it. Or did I miss something?

Yes, but it's not critical; see below ;)

> +int fsync(int fd)
> +{
> +	HANDLE h = (HANDLE) _get_osfhandle(fd);
> +	if (h == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
> +	{
> +		errno = EBADF;
> +		return -1;
> +	}
> +	if (!FlushFileBuffers(h))
> +	{
> +		errno = err_win_to_posix(GetLastError());
> +		return -1;
> +	}

Do we ever call fsync on a pipe? In this case, fsync should fail with
EINVAL, but your implementation would wait until the reader has drained
all data.

> -static inline int fsync(int fd)
> -{ return 0; }
> +int fsync(int fd);

This declaration is now in the wrong section of mingw.h. And someone who
cares should test it first; so I won't bless this patch as is.

Thanks anyway,
-- Hannes