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Re: [PATCH 03/14] lockfile: remove some redundant functions

From
Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date
Jun 10, 2015, 18:27 UTC
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Am 10.06.2015 um 19:40 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
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> Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
>> Remove the following functions and rewrite their callers to use the
>> equivalent tempfile functions directly:
>>
>> * fdopen_lock_file() -> fdopen_tempfile()
>> * reopen_lock_file() -> reopen_tempfile()
>> * close_lock_file() -> close_tempfile()
>
> Hmph,
>
> My knee-jerk reaction was "I thought lockfile abstraction was
> fine---why do we expose the implementation detail of the lockfile,
> which is now happen to be implemented on top of the tempfile API, to
> the callers?"

Just for the record, I had exactly the same reaction, and I find this transition against the spirit of a self-contained lockfile API.

-- Hannes
Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: Michael Haggerty
Message 9 of 26 in “Introduce a tempfile module”
  1. 00/14 Introduce a tempfile moduleMichael Haggerty, Jun 8, 2015
  2. 01/14 Move lockfile API documentation to lockfile.hMichael Haggerty, Jun 8, 2015
  3. 02/14 tempfile: a new module for handling temporary filesMichael Haggerty, Jun 8, 2015
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2015
  5. Michael HaggertyJun 10, 2015
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2015
  7. 03/14 lockfile: remove some redundant functionsMichael Haggerty, Jun 8, 2015
  8. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2015
  9. Johannes SixtJun 10, 2015
  10. 04/14 commit_lock_file(): use get_locked_file_path()Michael Haggerty, Jun 8, 2015
  11. 05/14 register_tempfile_object(): new function, extracted from create_tempfile()Michael Haggerty, Jun 8, 2015
  12. 06/14 tempfile: add several functions for creating temporary filesMichael Haggerty, Jun 8, 2015
  13. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2015
  14. Michael HaggertyAug 10, 2015
  15. 07/14 register_tempfile(): new function to handle an existing temporary fileMichael Haggerty, Jun 8, 2015
  16. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2015
  17. Michael HaggertyAug 10, 2015
  18. 08/14 write_shared_index(): use tempfile moduleMichael Haggerty, Jun 8, 2015
  19. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2015
  20. 09/14 setup_temporary_shallow(): use tempfile moduleMichael Haggerty, Jun 8, 2015
  21. 10/14 diff: use tempfile moduleMichael Haggerty, Jun 8, 2015
  22. 11/14 lock_repo_for_gc(): compute the path to "gc.pid" only onceMichael Haggerty, Jun 8, 2015
  23. 12/14 gc: use tempfile module to handle gc.pid fileMichael Haggerty, Jun 8, 2015
  24. 13/14 credential-cache--daemon: delete socket from main()Michael Haggerty, Jun 8, 2015
  25. 14/14 credential-cache--daemon: use tempfile moduleMichael Haggerty, Jun 8, 2015
  26. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2015

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