From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] Add a lockfile function to append to a file
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:14:36 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0804201714230.5084@eeepc-johanness> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vtzhxce9g.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
Hi,
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
>
> > This takes care of copying the original contents into the replacement
> > file after the lock is held, so that concurrent additions can't miss
> > each other's changes.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
> > ---
> > How about this? Also doesn't leak a fd and catches trying to append to a
> > file you can't read. Should I worry about mmap failing after the open?
>
> We have copy.c to copy small existing files, while detecting failure to
> copy properly. How about doing something like this instead?
I like it.
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-20 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-18 0:02 [PATCH 2/8] Add a lockfile function to append to a file Daniel Barkalow
2008-04-20 4:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-20 16:14 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2008-04-20 19:43 ` Daniel Barkalow
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2008-04-17 23:32 Daniel Barkalow
2008-04-17 23:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-17 23:51 ` Junio C Hamano
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