Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > If two processes are racing to create the same directory tree, they will > both see that the directory doesn't exist, both try to mkdir(), and one > of them will fail. This is okay, as we only care that the directory > gets created. So, we add a check for EEXIST from mkdir, and continue if > the directory now exists. > > Signed-off-by: Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > sha1_file.c | 9 +++++++++ > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c > index 40b2329..5668ecc 100644 > --- a/sha1_file.c > +++ b/sha1_file.c > @@ -123,6 +123,15 @@ int safe_create_leading_directories(char *path) > } > } > else if (mkdir(path, 0777)) { > + if (errno == EEXIST) { > + /* > + * We could be racing with another process to > + * create the directory. As long as the > + * directory gets created, we don't care. > + */ > + if (stat(path, &st) && S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) > + continue; You probably meant !stat() here, "we can successfully stat() and it turns out that we already have a directory there, so let's not do the error thing". Don't you need to restore (*pos = '/') before doing anything else, like "continue", by the way? We were given "a/b/c", and in order to make sure "a" exists, we made it to "a\0b/c", did a stat() and found it was missing, did a mkdir() and now we got EEXIST. pos points at that NUL, so I would imagine that in order to continue you need to * restore the string to be "a/b/c"; and * make pos to point at "b" in the string. Perhaps something like this instead? sha1_file.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c index 9152974..964c4d4 100644 --- a/sha1_file.c +++ b/sha1_file.c @@ -122,8 +122,13 @@ int safe_create_leading_directories(char *path) } } else if (mkdir(path, 0777)) { - *pos = '/'; - return -1; + if (errno == EEXIST && + !stat(path, &st) && S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) { + ; /* somebody created it since we checked */ + } else { + *pos = '/'; + return -1; + } } else if (adjust_shared_perm(path)) { *pos = '/'; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html