From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:06:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce an exponential-backoff-retry in unlink on mingw.
Message-ID: <4B79C56E.2040207@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <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