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Re: Freeing struct lock_file?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 3, 2015, 22:01 UTC
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David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com> writes:
> Why is it impossible to free struct lock_files?  I understand that they
> become part of a linked list, and that there's an atexit handler that
> goes over that list.  But couldn't we just remove them from the linked
> list and then free them?

I suspect that the code is worried about getting a signal, while it is manipulating the linked list, and then cause the atexit handler to walk a list that is in a broken state.

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  1. David TurnerApr 3, 2015
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 3, 2015
  3. David TurnerApr 4, 2015
  4. Torsten BögershausenApr 4, 2015
  5. David TurnerApr 6, 2015
  6. C99 (Was: Re: Freeing struct lock_file?)brian m. carlson, Apr 4, 2015
  7. Junio C HamanoApr 4, 2015
  8. brian m. carlsonApr 4, 2015
  9. David TurnerApr 7, 2015

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