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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: 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 12:00:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vhc34y9za.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902081551290.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Sun, 8 Feb 2009 15:56:38 +0100 (CET)")

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.

When repacking we should pack into a temporary pack and idx file and then
replace the real ones after both new pack and its idx are successfully
written, and I thought that is how we've been doing this all the time.
Maybe the caller has been broken at some point?  Sigh...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-08 20:03 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 [this message]
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
2009-02-08 20:09 ` Junio C Hamano

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