On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 1:27 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > I am much more concerned about concurrent accesses and the communication > between the Git processes and the index-helper. Writing to the .pid file > sounds very fragile to me, in particular when multiple processes can poke > the index-helper in succession and some readers are unaware that the index > is being refreshed. It's not that bad. We should have protection in place to deal with this and fall back to reading directly from file when things get suspicious. But I agree that sending UNIX signals (or PostMessage) is not really good communication. -- Duy -- 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