Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] t/README: document writing concurrency-safe helpers

> On Tue, Aug 4, 2026 at 1:03 AM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > +Writing concurrency-safe helpers
> > > +--------------------------------
> >
> > Nit: this paragraph is quite specific to lib-httpd, so it would make
> > sense to mention it in the header here. E.g.
> >
> >     Writing concurrency-safe lib-httpd helpers
> >
> 
> Originally, I did just have this as a blurb in t/lib-httpd.sh. I ended up moving
> it here and trying to make the advice apply more generally, though the only
> other existing example I could find in another domain was the
> make_symlink() reference. My intention was to make sure someone working
> on a test helper with concurrency didn't skip over the section just because
> they saw "http" and thought the advice didn't apply to their use case.
> 
> I'm inclined to make the language in the section more http-agnostic rather
> than changing the title to be specific to http, but I do not feel very strongly
> about it. If we were to frame this as http-specific advice maybe it should go
> back to t/lib-httpd.sh instead of t/README?