From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:39:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Optimizing writes to unchanged files during merges?
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kbs0heVvqMf2cjBtxtYs48CFFaM+9+YzB6gUwzWScvr=A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwi9pTAJT_qtv=vHLgu=B1fdXBoD96i8Y5xnbS=zrfSzg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Linus,

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 10:14 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Comments? Because considering the problems this code has had, maybe
> "stupid" really is the right approach...

Would s/read/xread/ make sense in working_tree_matches ?
If read returns unexpectedly due to EINTR or EAGAIN,
this is no correctness issue, but you'd have to recompile the kernel.

Stefan