Re: Make the git codebase thread-safe

[Stefan Zager <szager@google.com>]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com> wrote:
> Am 12.02.2014 19:37, schrieb Erik Faye-Lund:
>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Stefan Zager <szager@google.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Stefan Zager <szager@google.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't want to steal the thunder of my coworker, who wrote the
>>>>> implementation.  He plans to submit it upstream soon-ish.  It relies
>>>>> on using the lpOverlapped argument to ReadFile(), with some additional
>>>>> tomfoolery to make sure that the implicit position pointer for the
>>>>> file descriptor doesn't get modified.
>>>>
>>>> Is the code available somewhere? I'm especially interested in the
>>>> "additional tomfoolery to make sure that the implicit position pointer
>>>> for the file descriptor doesn't get modified"-part, as this was what I
>>>> ended up butting my head into when trying to do this myself.
>>>
>>> https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/#/c/186104/
>>
>> ReOpenFile, that's fantastic. Thanks a lot!
>
> ...but should be loaded dynamically via GetProcAddress, or are we ready to drop XP support?

Right, that is an issue.  From our perspective, it's well past time to
drop XP support.