From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 01:02:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Segfault in the attr stack
Message-ID: <CACsJy8A4gXRyx4LpBmM2Y=n2KB0NurKMiW42-tPnU7K89qj5bw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 5:17 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Gaah, of course.
>
> This is coming from the cache preload codepath, where multiple threads
> try to run ce_path_match().
> It used to be OK because pathspec magic never looked at attributes,
> but now it does, and attribute system is not thread-safe.

Off topic. I wonder if we can annotate which functions are thread-safe
(minority currently in git code base, I believe) and make gcc, clang
or sparse spot them in threaded code?
-- 
Duy