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Re: [PATCH] Introduce an exponential-backoff-retry in unlink on mingw.

From
Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date
Feb 15, 2010, 22:06 UTC
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<4B79C56E.2040207@kdbg.org>
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<loom.20100215T213606-594@post.gmane.org>
Ludvig Strigeus schrieb:
> A backoff is introduced that retries the unlink a few times with a
> small delay in between.

Thanks. Did you notice that there is already a similar strategy implemented in mingw_rename? It starts with Sleep(0).

A similar patch was floated recently on the msysgit mailing list. Please research the archives.

-- Hannes
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  1. Introduce an exponential-backoff-retry in unlink on mingw.Ludvig Strigeus, Feb 15, 2010
  2. Johannes SixtFeb 15, 2010

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