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Re: [PATCH 2/2] mingw: ensure temporary file handles are not inherited by child processes

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Aug 18, 2016, 14:50 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.2.20.1608181650030.4924@virtualbox>
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Hi Junio,
On Wed, 17 Aug 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> But it deserves mention in the lockfile and the tempfile API docs in
> <lockfile.h> and <tempfile.h> that the file descriptor returned from
> these public entry points does not survive across fork(2).

I touched the comments up a little bit, and I also fixed the first commit message as per your reply.

Will send out v2 in a moment.

Thanks, Dscho

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Message 9 of 21 in “Do not lock temporary files via child processes on Windows”
  1. 0/2 Do not lock temporary files via child processes on WindowsJohannes Schindelin, Aug 17, 2016
  2. 1/2 t6026-merge-attr: child processes must not inherit index.lock handlesJohannes Schindelin, Aug 17, 2016
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 17, 2016
  4. 2/2 mingw: ensure temporary file handles are not inherited by child processesJohannes Schindelin, Aug 17, 2016
  5. Eric SunshineAug 17, 2016
  6. Johannes SchindelinAug 18, 2016
  7. Lars SchneiderAug 17, 2016
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 17, 2016
  9. Johannes SchindelinAug 18, 2016
  10. Eric WongAug 18, 2016
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 18, 2016
  12. Eric WongAug 18, 2016
  13. Junio C HamanoAug 19, 2016
  14. Johannes SchindelinAug 22, 2016
  15. 0/2 Do not lock temporary files via child processes on WindowsJohannes Schindelin, Aug 18, 2016
  16. 2/2 mingw: ensure temporary file handles are not inherited by child processesJohannes Schindelin, Aug 18, 2016
  17. 1/2 t6026-merge-attr: child processes must not inherit index.lock handlesJohannes Schindelin, Aug 18, 2016
  18. 0/2 Do not lock temporary files via child processes on WindowsJohannes Schindelin, Aug 22, 2016
  19. 1/2 t6026-merge-attr: child processes must not inherit index.lock handlesJohannes Schindelin, Aug 22, 2016
  20. 2/2 mingw: ensure temporary file handles are not inherited by child processesJohannes Schindelin, Aug 22, 2016
  21. Eric WongAug 22, 2016

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