Re: git .lock file error

> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 18:00, Nate Parsons <parsons.nate@gmail.com> wrote:
>> OK, so this is definitely a win32 issue. I believe that the perl
>> script is simply creating .lock files too fast for Windows to keep up.
>> Simply trying again fixes the problem for me.
>
> Sounds like something that might do with a non-hacky solution, but I
> don't know what that would be.
>
> ...
> FWIW I think this is more readable, but maybe we want to retry on all
> platforms:
>
>     my $fh;
>     if ($^O eq 'MSWin32' or $^O eq 'cygwin') {
>         # Try 10 times to open our lock file, in case Windows is lagging
>         for my $try (1..10) {
>             sysopen($fh, $db_lock, O_RDWR | O_CREAT);
>             last if $fh;
>         }
>     } else {
>         sysopen($fh, $db_lock, O_RDWR | O_CREAT);
>     }