Re: [PATCHv2 3/4] bundle: don't leak an fd in case of early return

[Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> wrote:
> From: "Stefan Beller" <sbeller@google.com>
>>
>> In successful operation `write_pack_data` will close the `bundle_fd`,
>> but when we exit early, we need to take care of the file descriptor
>> as well as the lock file ourselves. The lock file may be deleted at the
>> end of running the program, but we are in library code, so we should
>> not rely on that.
>>
>> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
>
>
> Has this been tested on Windows? I had a similar problem very recently
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/git-for-windows/6LPxf9xZKhI/-s7XD18yCwAJ
> where a bad rev-list-arg would cause the `bundle create` to die, and, on
> windows, leave the incomplete bundle file locked.
>
> dscho suggested one possible solution for that, but I haven't had any time
> to try any patches.

I think with Jeffs suggestion to only rollback the lock in case of
(!bundle_to_stdout)
we're not making it worse. I do not have a Windows machine at hand to test it :(