Re: [PATCH 7/6] Enable threaded async procedures whenever pthreads is available

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On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 21:19, Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Dienstag, 23. März 2010, Fredrik Kuivinen wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 22:28, Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> That xmalloc and xrealloc aren't thread-safe feels a bit fragile.
>> Maybe we should try to fix that.
>
> The point of this assessment was to find out whether this is necessary (and
> whether something else that is not thread-safe is used).

It may not be necessary now, but my point was that by having
thread-unsafe xmalloc and xrealloc it is a bit too easy to introduce
new bugs.

>> > ----------
>> > upload_pack:create_pack_file():
>> ...
>> sha1_to_hex is also called by the parent and the current
>> implementation of that function is not thread-safe. sha1_to_hex is
>> also called by some paths in the revision machinery, but I don't know
>> if it will ever be called in this particular case.
>
> sha1_to_hex is only called by the parent when the async procedure is not used.

Yes, you are right.

- Fredrik
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