On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 04:58, Bert Huijben <b...@qqmail.nl> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: artag...@apache.org [mailto:artag...@apache.org] >> Sent: maandag 4 oktober 2010 17:27 >> To: comm...@subversion.apache.org >> Subject: svn commit: r1004286 - in /subversion/trunk: ./ >> subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c >> >> Author: artagnon >> Date: Mon Oct 4 15:26:44 2010 >> New Revision: 1004286 >> >> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1004286&view=rev >> Log: >> Merge r985477 from subversion/branches/performance >> >> * subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c >> (get_default_file_perms): Store the permissions of the created >> temporary file in a static variable and re-use it in subsequent >> calls instead of checking persmissions everytime. This has >> performance benefits. >> >> Review by: artagnon >> Approved by: julianfoad > > Delayed review: > > Shouldn't this function use some 'atomic initialization' handling? > > Currently it uses a static apr_fileperms_t (integer?) which can be > manipulated by multiple threads at the same time. > > This part of subversion is a library and inside tools like Subclipse, > TortoiseSVN, AnkhSVN and others it is used multithreaded.
So what? Aren't all of those threads going to write the exact same value into the variable? And if they *don't*, then I believe we have larger problems. Cheers, -g