Re: [ANNOUNCE] CGit v0.1-pre

["Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com>]

On 12/11/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Lars Hjemli wrote:
> >
> > Ok. Code speeks louder than words, so I'll blatantly paste the key functions:
>
> Yeah, they're still buggy:
>
> > int cache_unlock(struct cacheitem *item)
> > {
> >       close(item->fd);
> >       return (rename(fmt("%s.lock", item->name), item->name) == 0);
> > }
> ...
> >       if (!cache_exist(item)) {
> >               if (!cache_lock(item)) {
> >                       sleep(1);
> >                       goto top;
> >               }
> >               if (!cache_exist(item))
> >                       cgit_fill_cache(item);
> >               cache_unlock(item);
>
> What do you think happens if that last "cache_exist()" returned true?
>
> That's right: the "cache_unlock()" will now OVERWRITE the valid cache with
> the (empty) lock-file that you didn't fill in.
>
> Oops.
>

Wow, that's embarrassing.

Thanks for the debugging, I'll try to actually fix it this time :-)

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