Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2015, #08; Mon, 23)

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:08:54 -0700

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:

> [Stalled]
>
> * mh/fdopen-with-retry (2015-03-06) 6 commits
>  - buffer_fdinit(): use fdopen_with_retry()
>  - update_info_file(): use fdopen_with_retry()
>  - copy_to_log(): use fdopen_with_retry()
>  - fdopen_lock_file(): use fdopen_with_retry()
>  - SQUASH??? $gmane/264889
>  - xfdopen(): if first attempt fails, free memory and try again
>
>  Various parts of the code where they call fdopen() can fail when
>  they run out of memory; attempt to proceed by retrying the
>  operation after freeing some resource.
>
>  Waiting for further comments.

Sorry, but I lost track.  Is this one still viable, or have we
decided that it is not worth doing it?