Am 19.03.2014 01:46, schrieb szager@xxxxxxxxxxxx: > This adds a Windows implementation of pread. Note that it is NOT > safe to intersperse calls to read() and pread() on a file > descriptor. This is a bad idea. You're basically fixing the multi-threaded issue twice, while at the same time breaking single-threaded read/pread interop on the mingw and msvc platform. Users of pread already have to take care that its not thread-safe on some platforms, now you're adding another breakage that has to be considered in future development. The mingw_pread implementation in [1] is both thread-safe and allows mixing read/pread in single-threaded scenarios, why not use this instead? [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/242120 > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/196042 > Duy's patch alone enables multi-threaded index-pack on all platforms (including cygwin), so IMO this should be a separate patch. > + if (hand == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) { > + errno = EBADF; > + return -1; > + } This check is redundant, ReadFile already ckecks for invalid handles and err_win_to_posix converts to EBADF. > + > + LARGE_INTEGER offset_value; > + offset_value.QuadPart = offset; > + > + DWORD bytes_read = 0; > + OVERLAPPED overlapped = {0}; > + overlapped.Offset = offset_value.LowPart; > + overlapped.OffsetHigh = offset_value.HighPart; > + BOOL result = ReadFile(hand, buf, count, &bytes_read, &overlapped); > + > + ssize_t ret = bytes_read; > + > + if (!result && GetLastError() != ERROR_HANDLE_EOF) According to MSDN docs, ReadFile never fails with ERROR_HANDLE_EOF, or is this another case where the documentation is wrong? "When a synchronous read operation reaches the end of a file, ReadFile returns TRUE and sets *lpNumberOfBytesRead to zero." Karsten -- 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