Re: [PATCH 2/2] Windows: Skip fstat/lstat optimization in write_entry()

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Alex Riesen schrieb:
> 2009/4/20 Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> If the time passed between the creating file and end of writing to it is
>> small (less than timestamp resolution), you may not notice the problem.
>> The following program demonstrates the problem with fstat on Windows.
>> (I compiled it using Cygwin). If you remove 'sleep' then you may not
>> notice the problem for a long time.
> 
> And the Windows being as slow as it is, the problem can stay undetected for
> a long time in a real working code.

You got that wrong: If Windows were slow, the error would have been
triggered more often and it would have been detected earlier. There you
have the proof: Windows is fast ... enough :-P

-- Hannes
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