Thank you for your response. On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 8:56 PM Derrick Stolee <stolee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At least, I haven't been able to find a reason why Git would be > failing with something like a segfault which would also cause leftover > .lock files. Yes, it is not necessarily a problem caused by git failure. I think it is a natural shortcoming of file existence lock, which cannot guarantee that the lock will be released when the process exits abnormally. > I can speak from experience of previously having a lock timeout > that this could cause problems where maintenance processes start > running on the same repo concurrently. > [1] https://github.com/microsoft/git/pull/598 I read your commit and explored more. Perhaps the file locks provided by the systems are a better choice, such as fcntl() on POSIX and LockFileEx() on Windows. They can be automatically released when the process exits abnormally. If there are no objections, I'll give it a try and send a patch in a few days. Thanks Liuzhongbo
