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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG?] gc and impatience
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 21:44:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPc5daXi_ZG6GcK6pWafffyOY4MEZHUMkZxTxiRiU4BaFybqqg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DRo9Akoydwn9-EPOSyJiPhqAf1=HncYjHvXZwS4S_d7A@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good point. I think that is because gc does not check if gc is already
> running. Adding such a check should not be too hard. I think gc could
> save its pid in $GIT_DIR/auto-gc.pid. The next auto-gc checks this, if
> the pid is valid, skip auto-gc.

Defining "valid" is a tricky business, though, as pid can and will
wrap around, and the directory could be shared on multiple machines. A
pid written by a process on one machine has no relation to any pid on
another machine.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-03  4:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-03  1:48 [BUG?] gc and impatience Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-08-03  3:53 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-08-03  4:44   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-08-03  5:25     ` Duy Nguyen
2013-08-05 15:24       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-05 15:54         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-08-06  2:14   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
     [not found] <1rpxs5pa827iefbyduyodlc7.1375495435629@email.android.com>
2013-08-05 17:34 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-08-05 18:45   ` Martin Fick
2013-08-06  2:59     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra

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