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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,  Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
	rsbecker@nexbridge.com,  Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reftable: fix tests being broken by NFS' delete-after-close semantics
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 10:35:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqsf0j8p48.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ac5e94a3930cdd2aee9ea86acda3155674b635c.1711035529.git.ps@pks.im> (Patrick Steinhardt's message of "Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:39:52 +0100")

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

>  	while ((d = readdir(dir))) {
> -		if (!strcmp(d->d_name, "..") || !strcmp(d->d_name, "."))
> +		/*
> +		 * Besides skipping over "." and "..", we also need to
> +		 * skip over other files that have a leading ".". This
> +		 * is due to behaviour of NFS, which will rename files
> +		 * to ".nfs*" to emulate delete-on-last-close.
> +		 *
> +		 * In any case this should be fine as the reftable
> +		 * library will never write files with leading dots
> +		 * anyway.
> +		 */
> +		if (starts_with(d->d_name, "."))
>  			continue;

Sounds good.  We should count what we positively consider what we
wrote, not random cruft somebody else might have dropped in the
directory, and this is a good first thing to do.

Will queue.  Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-21 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-12 15:10 t0032 fails on NFS mounts Chuck Lever
2024-03-12 17:11 ` rsbecker
2024-03-21 15:50   ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-03-13  7:20 ` Jeff King
2024-03-15  0:35   ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-03-15 15:41     ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-21 15:14   ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-03-21 15:39 ` [PATCH] reftable: fix tests being broken by NFS' delete-after-close semantics Patrick Steinhardt
2024-03-21 17:35   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2024-03-22 15:15   ` Toon Claes

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