From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:25:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Windows: Skip fstat/lstat optimization in write_entry()
Message-ID: <81b0412b0904200725j22de23cajfd4b1cf119e69721@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <49EC845D.6020107@viscovery.net>

2009/4/20 Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>:
> Alex Riesen schrieb:
>> 2009/4/20 Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>:
>>> If the time passed between the creating file and end of writing to it is
>>> small (less than timestamp resolution), you may not notice the problem.
>>> The following program demonstrates the problem with fstat on Windows.
>>> (I compiled it using Cygwin). If you remove 'sleep' then you may not
>>> notice the problem for a long time.
>>
>> And the Windows being as slow as it is, the problem can stay undetected for
>> a long time in a real working code.
>
> You got that wrong: If Windows were slow, the error would have been
> triggered more often and it would have been detected earlier. There you
> have the proof: Windows is fast ... enough :-P

Err, yes. Still a piece of cpp junk