From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Haggerty Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2015, #04; Mon, 27) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:21:35 +0200 Message-ID: <5541E60F.1070403@alum.mit.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Koosha Khajehmoogahi , Michael J Gruber , Jeff King , Paul Tan , =?UTF-8?B?Tmd1?= =?UTF-8?B?eeG7hW4gVGjDoWkgTmfhu41jIER1eQ==?= , Johannes Schindelin , =?UTF-8?B?SmFrdWIgTmFyxJlic2tp?= To: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 30 10:21:48 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YnjjA-0006Ad-4N for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:21:48 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751233AbbD3IVn (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2015 04:21:43 -0400 Received: from alum-mailsec-scanner-1.mit.edu ([18.7.68.12]:48932 "EHLO alum-mailsec-scanner-1.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751225AbbD3IVl (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2015 04:21:41 -0400 X-AuditID: 1207440c-f79376d00000680a-3c-5541e61282dd Received: from outgoing-alum.mit.edu (OUTGOING-ALUM.MIT.EDU [18.7.68.33]) by alum-mailsec-scanner-1.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id 14.17.26634.216E1455; Thu, 30 Apr 2015 04:21:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.69.130] (p4FC97A01.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.201.122.1]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as mhagger@ALUM.MIT.EDU) by outgoing-alum.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.12.4) with ESMTP id t3U8LZbc027020 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Thu, 30 Apr 2015 04:21:36 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.6.0 In-Reply-To: X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFrrIKsWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsUixO6iqCv0zDHUYFG3rsWaF6eZLbqudDNZ NPReYbZYcXUOs0X/8i42i7c3lzBabJuzitWie8pbRosfLT3MFq0f7jA5cHm0Tp7E7LFz1l12 jw8f4zye9e5h9Lh4Sdnj12FRj8+b5ALYo7htkhJLyoIz0/P07RK4M5a8fMlW8Jer4tL/DvYG xpccXYycHBICJhKTO3rZIGwxiQv31gPZXBxCApcZJRo+f2WBcM4xSWzd2cAIUsUroC2xdtE3 sA4WAVWJhz2fWEFsNgFdiUU9zUwgtqhAkETrtalQ9YISJ2c+YQGxRQSyJJp3vGIGGcos8JtJ 4u/RbewgCWEBe4m/33+DDRISyJR4fGQSWDOngLVE195+oGYOoAZ1ifXzhEDCzALyEtvfzmGe wCgwC8mKWQhVs5BULWBkXsUol5hTmqubm5iZU5yarFucnJiXl1qka6iXm1mil5pSuokREiU8 Oxi/rZM5xCjAwajEwzuj1TFUiDWxrLgy9xCjJAeTkiivwlOgEF9SfkplRmJxRnxRaU5q8SFG CQ5mJRHew4+AcrwpiZVVqUX5MClpDhYlcV7VJep+QgLpiSWp2ampBalFMFkZDg4lCd4TT4Aa BYtS01Mr0jJzShDSTBycIMO5pESKU/NSUosSS0sy4kGRGl8MjFWQFA/QXkOQm3iLCxJzgaIQ racYdTnm3Py9iEmIJS8/L1VKnLcDZIcASFFGaR7cClhKfMUoDvSxMK8ayCgeYDqFm/QKaAkT 0JLztxxAlpQkIqSkGhhtuLb7GgU/jzy7S+n4zsXPww+wBu1h/lTyNMb7iHnZzQ3H Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 04/30/2015 12:42 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Junio C Hamano writes: > >> Here are the topics that have been cooking. Commits prefixed with >> '-' are only in 'pu' (proposed updates) while commits prefixed with >> '+' are in 'next'. >> ... > > There are a handful of topics that are almost there but not > finished. Could the topic owners and area submaintainers who are > involved in them report their current status soonish, please, to > help me decide to keep or discard them? > > [...] >> * mh/fdopen-with-retry (2015-03-06) 6 commits >> - buffer_fdinit(): use fdopen_with_retry() >> - update_info_file(): use fdopen_with_retry() >> - copy_to_log(): use fdopen_with_retry() >> - fdopen_lock_file(): use fdopen_with_retry() >> - SQUASH??? $gmane/264889 >> - xfdopen(): if first attempt fails, free memory and try again >> >> Various parts of the code where they call fdopen() can fail when >> they run out of memory; attempt to proceed by retrying the >> operation after freeing some resource. Since we haven't heard anything from Jonathan (who originally suggested this change) and since nobody else seems to be able to muster much enthusiasm for it, let's discard this one. It's probably too much code to invest in a theoretical problem that AFAIK has never been observed. Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@alum.mit.edu