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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery•net>
Cc: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, kusmabite@gmail•com,
	"Ramsay Jones" <ramsay@ramsay1•demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH nd/threaded-index-pack] index-pack: disable threading if NO_PREAD is defined
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:49:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqr4vimbe1.fsf@junio.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F910145.5030102@viscovery.net> (Johannes Sixt's message of "Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:25:09 +0200")

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery•net> writes:

> Am 4/19/2012 16:05, schrieb Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy:
>> NO_PREAD simulates pread() as a sequence of seek, read, seek in
>> compat/pread.c. The simulation is not thread-safe because another
>> thread could move the file offset away in the middle of pread
>> operation. Do not allow threading in that case.
>
> Unsurprisingly, this fixes the breakage for me.
>
> I used the attached patch to keep t9300 running when the breakage
> was detected.
>
> --- 8< ---
> From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg•org>
> Subject: [PATCH] t9300-fast-import: avoid 'exit' in test_expect_success snippets
>
> Exiting from a for-loop early using '|| break' does not propagate the
> failure code, and for this reason, the tests used just 'exit'. But this
> ends the test script with 'FATAL: Unexpected exit code 1' in the case of
> a failed test.
>
> Fix this by moving the loop into a shell function, from which we can
> simply return early.

Makes sense.  If the original were written more readably, I may have
suggested to run the entire for loop in a subshell, but a helper
function is equally readable and with many identical checks, it is the
right way to do this.

Thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2012-04-20 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-19 14:05 [PATCH nd/threaded-index-pack] index-pack: disable threading if NO_PREAD is defined Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-04-19 20:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-20  6:25 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-04-20 19:49   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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