From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: Matheus Tavares Bernardino <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>,
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Thread safety in some low-level functions
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 01:38:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200625013851.GA9782@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHd-oW5jCWeWDcMhLU2Zf96uTtxLehVsM+StDC8LZga282cDjw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2020-06-24 at 22:52:58, Matheus Tavares Bernardino wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 7:29 PM Matheus Tavares Bernardino
> <matheus.bernardino@usp.br> wrote:
> >
> > - Regarding, oid_to_hex(), a patch from 2010 [1] proposed a solution
> > using thread-local storage and pthread_once(). But as Hannes pointed
> > out in this other thread [2] , implementing a Windows equivalence for
> > pthread_once() could be tricky and voluminous. Since this thread dates
> > from 7 years ago, I was wondering if we would be able to implement it
> > nowadays with InitOnceExecuteOnce() [3].
>
> I forgot to link it before, but here is a commit in libav.git which
> emulates pthread_once():
> https://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commitdiff;h=b22693b06d1e5d73454a65c203b4d31c1ca5b69a
>
> The patch is not so big, and if we consider only Vista+, it seems very
> straightforward. I'm not very familiar with Windows, though, and I'm
> not sure if this solution would work for us.
I believe Git for Windows dropped support for Windows XP some time back.
Regardless, since pretty much nobody using Windows XP (with the possible
exception of ATMs) is getting security support, I'm fine with ignoring
it either way. I am also not a Windows person, so others may have more
insight.
As for the general idea, I'm mildly in favor of it. While I don't plan
to work on the project myself (outside of cleaning up places I'm already
working), I'm definitely not opposed to seeing patches come in to
improve thread safety.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-25 1:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-24 22:29 [RFC] Thread safety in some low-level functions Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2020-06-24 22:52 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2020-06-25 1:38 ` brian m. carlson [this message]
2020-06-25 20:32 ` [PATCH 0/2] Make oid_to_hex() thread-safe Matheus Tavares
2020-06-25 20:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] compat/win32/pthread: add pthread_once() Matheus Tavares
2020-06-26 5:45 ` Christian Couder
2020-06-26 14:13 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2020-06-25 20:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] hex: make hash_to_hex_algop() and friends thread-safe Matheus Tavares
2020-06-25 23:07 ` brian m. carlson
2020-06-25 23:54 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2020-06-26 0:00 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2020-06-26 6:02 ` Christian Couder
2020-06-26 8:22 ` [PATCH 0/2] Make oid_to_hex() thread-safe Christian Couder
2020-06-26 16:22 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2020-06-26 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 " Matheus Tavares
2020-06-26 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] compat/win32/pthread: add pthread_once() Matheus Tavares
2020-06-26 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] hex: make hash_to_hex_algop() and friends thread-safe Matheus Tavares
2020-06-29 15:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-06-30 20:37 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2020-07-01 11:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-07-16 11:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-07-18 3:09 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2020-08-10 14:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-07-18 3:52 ` Matheus Tavares
2020-07-26 17:41 ` René Scharfe
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