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From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, peff@peff.net, szeder.dev@gmail.com,
	dstolee@microsoft.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] commit-graph: close descriptors after mmap
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 06:57:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7f344c3c-98e1-fc3c-4018-46e64f8010c0@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmu70d547.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On 4/24/2020 4:02 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> From: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
>> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:11:13 +0000
>> Subject: [PATCH] multi-pack-index: close file descriptor after mmap
>>
>> We recently discovered that the commit-graph was not closing its
>> file descriptor after memory-mapping the file contents. After this
>> mmap() succeeds, there is no need to keep the file descriptor open.
>> In fact, there is signficant reason to close it so we do not run
>> out of descriptors.
> 
> The above is sufficient a justification.  Let's leave the remaining
> two paragraphs under three-dashes.

Works for me! I also thought there were too many first-person pronouns,
but erred on the side of reporting "how did we figure out this was an
issue?" in the message.

-Stolee

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-27 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-23 21:40 [PATCH 0/4] commit-graph: handle file descriptor exhaustion Taylor Blau
2020-04-23 21:41 ` [PATCH 1/4] commit-graph.c: don't use discarded graph_name in error Taylor Blau
2020-04-23 21:41 ` [PATCH 2/4] t/test-lib.sh: make ULIMIT_FILE_DESCRIPTORS available to tests Taylor Blau
2020-04-23 21:41 ` [PATCH 3/4] commit-graph.c: gracefully handle file descriptor exhaustion Taylor Blau
2021-06-24  9:51   ` t5324-split-commit-graph.sh flaky due to assumptions about ulimit behavior Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-24 15:52     ` Jeff King
2020-04-23 21:41 ` [PATCH 4/4] commit-graph: close descriptors after mmap Taylor Blau
2020-04-23 22:04   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-24  3:56     ` Jeff King
2020-04-24 13:17     ` Derrick Stolee
2020-04-24 16:35       ` Taylor Blau
2020-04-24 20:02       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-27 10:57         ` Derrick Stolee [this message]
2020-04-23 21:43 ` [PATCH 0/4] commit-graph: handle file descriptor exhaustion Taylor Blau

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