There are still some more possible improvements around this code but
they are orthogonal to this change :
* migrate to approxidate_careful or parse_expiry_date
* maybe make sure only approxidate are used for expiration
Changes in v2:
* improved commit message as suggested by Eric
* failsafe against time_t truncation as suggested by Junio
-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] read-cache: use time specific types instead of
unsigned long
b968372279 ("read-cache: unlink old sharedindex files", 2017-03-06)
introduced get_shared_index_expire_date using unsigned long to track
the modification times of a shared index.
dddbad728c ("timestamp_t: a new data type for timestamps", 2017-04-26)
shows why that might be problematic so move to timestamp_t/time_t.
if time_t can't represent a valid time keep the indexes for failsafe
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@xxxxxxxxx>
---
read-cache.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index 7b1354d759..7d322f11c8 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -2625,9 +2625,9 @@ static int write_split_index(struct index_state *istate,
static const char *shared_index_expire = "2.weeks.ago";
-static unsigned long get_shared_index_expire_date(void)
+static timestamp_t get_shared_index_expire_date(void)
{
- static unsigned long shared_index_expire_date;
+ static timestamp_t shared_index_expire_date;
static int shared_index_expire_date_prepared;
if (!shared_index_expire_date_prepared) {
@@ -2643,12 +2643,12 @@ static unsigned long get_shared_index_expire_date(void)
static int should_delete_shared_index(const char *shared_index_path)
{
struct stat st;
- unsigned long expiration;
+ time_t expiration;
+ timestamp_t t = get_shared_index_expire_date();
- /* Check timestamp */
- expiration = get_shared_index_expire_date();
- if (!expiration)
+ if (!t || date_overflows(t))
return 0;
+ expiration = t;
if (stat(shared_index_path, &st))
return error_errno(_("could not stat '%s'"), shared_index_path);
if (st.st_mtime > expiration)
--
2.19.1.856.g8858448bb
