From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 18:06:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Worktree creation race
Message-ID: <xmqqh8dnz8mr.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cSdpq0Bfq3zSK8kJd6da3dKixK7qYQ24=ZwbuQtsaLNZw@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

> Another possibility would be to skip the stat() and instead do the
> mkdir() in a loop, incrementing the sequence number each time through
> the loop. That should eliminate the race entirely (I think).

Yeah, I think that is the only sensible option to rely on the
atomicity of mkdir() call.