Mike Hommey <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 12:00:57PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: >> >> > My preliminary guess is that this code in pack-write.c needs to use the >> > lock file paradigm: >> > >> > if (!index_name) { >> > [...] >> > } else { >> > unlink(index_name); >> > fd = open(index_name, O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_WRONLY, 0600); >> > } >> >> Whoa. That particular code has been (and is still) correct. > > Don't both unlink and open fail in the case the index file is locked in > Windows ? Read the rest of the thread and read the code. The index_file in question is not the file git-repack is telling pack-write.c to unlink and open. -- 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