Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix 'git clean' failure on NFS.

From: Török Edwin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:01:07 +0300

On 06/18/2010 03:29 PM, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> 2010/6/18 Török Edwin <[email-masked]>:
>> readdir() used to do a single pass, which is not always enough.
>> If you unlink some files/rmdir some subdirs then there might be some
>> files you haven't seen yet *before* the readdir cursor (files get rearranged
>> in the directory, etc.).
>>
>> The fix is to do an additional readdir() pass if we unlinked/rmdired something.
>> This is easily accomplished by using rewinddir.
>>
> 
> Won't this break on Windows? mingw_readdir() doesn't seem to have a
> maching mingw_rewinddir() in compat/mingw.c/h....
> 

rewinddir() is used in ClamAV too, and it builds natively on win32.
I think we have some compat function that map rewinddir to the Win32
API, somebody will probably have to do that for git too.

Another possibility is to do closedir/opendir again on mingw.

Best regards,
--Edwin