From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:37:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Make the git codebase thread-safe
Message-ID: <CABPQNSYVGc9m0_xfAWe=3b7CXyGZ-2FfTMRbTJ=UECeZUtdgmg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAHOQ7J_Jrj1NJ_tZaCioskQU_xGR2FQPt8=JrWpR6rfs=c847w@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Stefan Zager <szager@google.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Stefan Zager <szager@google.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't want to steal the thunder of my coworker, who wrote the
>>> implementation.  He plans to submit it upstream soon-ish.  It relies
>>> on using the lpOverlapped argument to ReadFile(), with some additional
>>> tomfoolery to make sure that the implicit position pointer for the
>>> file descriptor doesn't get modified.
>>
>> Is the code available somewhere? I'm especially interested in the
>> "additional tomfoolery to make sure that the implicit position pointer
>> for the file descriptor doesn't get modified"-part, as this was what I
>> ended up butting my head into when trying to do this myself.
>
> https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/#/c/186104/

ReOpenFile, that's fantastic. Thanks a lot!