On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Zachary Turner <ztur...@chromium.org> wrote:
>> (Gah, sorry if you're receiving multiple emails to your personal
>> addresses, I need to get used to manually setting Plain-text mode
>> every time I send a message).
>>
>> For the mixed read, we wouldn't be looking for another caller of
>> pread() (since it doesn't care what the file pointer is), but instead
>> a caller of read() or lseek() (since those do depend on the current
>> file pointer).  In index-pack.c, I see two possible culprits:
>>
>> 1) A call to xread() from inside fill()
>> 2) A call to lseek in parse_pack_objects()
>>
>> Do you think these could be related?  If so, maybe that opens up some
>> other solutions?
>
> For index-pack alone, what's wrong with open one file handle per thread?

Nothing wrong with that, except that it would mean either using
thread-local storage (which the code doesn't currently use); or
plumbing pack_fd through the call stack, which doesn't sound very fun.

Stefan

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