git-commit-vandalism/compat
Johannes Sixt 6ac6f87818 Windows: Work around intermittent failures in mingw_rename
We have replaced rename() with a version that can rename a file to a
destination that already exists. Nevertheless, many users, the author
included, observe failures in the code that are not reproducible.

The theory is that the failures are due to some other process that happens
to have opened the destination file briefly at the wrong moment. (And there
is no way on Windows to delete or replace a file that is currently open.)
The most likely candidate for such a process is a virus scanner. The
failure is more often observed while there is heavy git activity (for
example while the test suite is running or during a rebase operation).

We work around the failure by retrying the rename operation if it failed
due to ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED. The retries are delayed a bit: The first only
by giving up the time slice, the next after the minimal scheduling
granularity, and if more retries are needed, then we wait some non-trivial
amount of time with exponential back-off.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-20 03:42:53 -07:00
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fnmatch Use compatibility regex library for OSX/Darwin 2008-09-10 13:36:40 -07:00
regex Use compatibility regex library for OSX/Darwin 2008-09-10 13:36:40 -07:00
cygwin.c compat/cygwin.c: make runtime detection of lstat/stat lessor impact 2008-10-28 09:12:49 -07:00
cygwin.h cygwin: Use native Win32 API for stat 2008-09-30 14:30:06 -07:00
fopen.c
hstrerror.c
inet_ntop.c
inet_pton.c
memmem.c optimize compat/ memmem() 2009-03-02 18:28:06 -08:00
mingw.c Windows: Work around intermittent failures in mingw_rename 2009-04-20 03:42:53 -07:00
mingw.h MinGW: implement mmap 2009-03-18 19:23:04 -07:00
mkdtemp.c
mmap.c
pread.c
qsort.c
setenv.c
snprintf.c compat/snprintf.c: handle snprintf's that always return the # chars transmitted 2008-08-21 01:53:44 -07:00
strcasestr.c
strlcpy.c
strtoumax.c
unsetenv.c
win32.h mingw: move common functionality to win32.h 2008-09-30 14:30:06 -07:00
win32mmap.c MinGW: implement mmap 2009-03-18 19:23:04 -07:00
winansi.c winansi: support ESC [ K (erase in line) 2009-03-10 23:23:02 -07:00