From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Sixt Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce an exponential-backoff-retry in unlink on mingw. Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:06:38 +0100 Message-ID: <4B79C56E.2040207@kdbg.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Ludvig Strigeus X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 15 23:06:54 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nh95f-0008OC-Gc for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:06:51 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932072Ab0BOWGq (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:06:46 -0500 Received: from bsmtp4.bon.at ([195.3.86.186]:43188 "EHLO bsmtp.bon.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756101Ab0BOWGp (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:06:45 -0500 Received: from [77.119.192.246] (77.119.192.246.wireless.dyn.drei.com [77.119.192.246]) by bsmtp.bon.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55CF210014; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:06:42 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Ludvig Strigeus schrieb: > A backoff is introduced that retries the unlink a few times with a > small delay in between. Thanks. Did you notice that there is already a similar strategy implemented in mingw_rename? It starts with Sleep(0). A similar patch was floated recently on the msysgit mailing list. Please research the archives. -- Hannes