[PATCH v3 0/5] make open/unlink failures user friendly on windows using retry/abort

From: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Date: Dec 14, 2010, 22:06 UTC
Message-ID: <20101214220604.GA4084@sandbox>

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:32:00PM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote:

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> On Dienstag, 9. November 2010, Heiko Voigt wrote:
> > So it seems that unlink also has the problem of getting an
> > ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED (Code 5) sometimes. Johannes would you agree that
> > including this code into the is_file_in_use_error() function and thus
> > having the potential risk of a 71ms delay for real access denials for
> > these calls makes sense?
> 
> Of course, it matches my own observations.

Sorry for the delay. Here is finally a new iteration of the patch series. I hope I have addressed all raised issues. An extra pair of eyes is appreciated.

This series has been ported to Junios tree.

I also added one patch from Johannes which I think should be part of this series.

Cheers Heiko

Heiko Voigt (4):
  mingw: move unlink wrapper to mingw.c
  mingw: work around irregular failures of unlink on windows
  mingw: make failures to unlink or move raise a question
  mingw: add fallback for rmdir in case directory is in use

Johannes Schindelin (1):
  mingw_rmdir: set errno=ENOTEMPTY when appropriate

 compat/mingw.c |  172 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 compat/mingw.h |   14 ++---
 2 files changed, 177 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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