From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:17:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Windows: Skip fstat/lstat optimization in write_entry()
Message-ID: <81b0412b0904201517v2d842528x59ef7bed85efc014@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vbpqrdnyn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

2009/4/20 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> 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.
>
> I take that you mean that Alex's patch does not work as intended.  ...

Yes, it just makes the problem harder to notice by providing a faster fstat.