Subject: [PATCH v4 2/5] mingw: work around irregular failures of unlink on windows

From: Heiko Voigt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:44:14 +0100

If a file is opened by another process (e.g. indexing of an IDE) for
reading it is not allowed to be deleted. So in case unlink fails retry
after waiting for some time. This extends the workaround from 6ac6f878.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <[email-masked]>
---
Here is a replacement for the previous patch.

 compat/mingw.c |   31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index a7e1c6b..4a1c218 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 #include <conio.h>
 #include "../strbuf.h"
 
+static const int delay[] = { 0, 1, 10, 20, 40 };
+
 int err_win_to_posix(DWORD winerr)
 {
 	int error = ENOSYS;
@@ -116,12 +118,38 @@ int err_win_to_posix(DWORD winerr)
 	return error;
 }
 
+static inline int is_file_in_use_error(DWORD errcode)
+{
+	switch(errcode) {
+	case ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION:
+	case ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED:
+		return 1;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 #undef unlink
 int mingw_unlink(const char *pathname)
 {
+	int ret, tries = 0;
+
 	/* read-only files cannot be removed */
 	chmod(pathname, 0666);
-	return unlink(pathname);
+	while ((ret = unlink(pathname)) == -1 && tries < ARRAY_SIZE(delay)) {
+		if (!is_file_in_use_error(GetLastError()))
+			break;
+		/*
+		 * We assume that some other process had the source or
+		 * destination file open at the wrong moment and retry.
+		 * In order to give the other process a higher chance to
+		 * complete its operation, we give up our time slice now.
+		 * If we have to retry again, we do sleep a bit.
+		 */
+		Sleep(delay[tries]);
+		tries++;
+	}
+	return ret;
 }
 
 #undef open
@@ -1257,7 +1285,6 @@ int mingw_rename(const char *pold, const char *pnew)
 {
 	DWORD attrs, gle;
 	int tries = 0;
-	static const int delay[] = { 0, 1, 10, 20, 40 };
 
 	/*
 	 * Try native rename() first to get errno right.
-- 
1.7.3.3.566.g98577