Re: Make the git codebase thread-safe
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- Stefan Zager <szager@google.com>
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- Feb 13, 2014, 22:53 UTC
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On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Am 13.02.2014 19:38, schrieb Zachary Turner: > >> The only reason ReOpenFile is necessary at >> all is because some code somewhere is mixing read-styles against the same >> fd. >> > > I don't understand...ReadFile with OVERLAPPED parameter doesn't modify the HANDLE's file position, so you should be able to mix read()/pread() however you like (as long as read() is only called from one thread).
That is, apparently, a bald-faced lie in the ReadFile API doc. First implementation didn't use ReOpenFile, and it crashed all over the place. ReOpenFile fixed it.
Stefan