From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 21:10:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gc: run pre-detach operations under lock
Message-ID: <xmqq8tjt1hw1.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170712165817.xcq4we5ynl3opm37@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> ... And I
> really think it's not "a little more work". Even if we decided to keep
> the same file and replace the PID in it with the daemonized one, I think
> that still isn't quite right. Because we don't do so atomically unless
> we take gc.pid.lock again.

Exactly.