From: Stefan Zager <szager@google.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:34:24 GMT
Subject: Re: Make the git codebase thread-safe
Message-ID: <CAHOQ7J_Jrj1NJ_tZaCioskQU_xGR2FQPt8=JrWpR6rfs=c847w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CABPQNSZtQd51gQY7oK8B-BbpNEhxR-onQtiXSfW9sv1t2YW_nw@mail.gmail.com>

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/